[winswitch] Connected to headless centos server from mac: keyboard messed up

[Antoine Martin]

On 27/04/16 01:21, Stephen Fromm wrote:
> xev found the problem with the control keys:  control is seen as ALT,
> CMD (apple key) is seen as control.
As per my previous email, this is a feature which you can control via
the apple menu, via the command line, or even override in your own
xpra.conf if you don't like the default.
More information here:
http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/456

Cheers
Antoine


>  Thanks for the tip.
> 
> setxkbmap -print is indeed empty on the server.
> 
> Best,
> 
> S
> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk
> <mailto:antoine at nagafix.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     On 26/04/16 03:58, Stephen Fromm wrote:
>     > I'm trying to connect to a headless Centos 6.7 server.  I installed xpra on
>     > the server and on my Macbook Pro.
>     Which versions?
> 
>     > I'm able to get an xterm running, but the font is too small,
>     Font too small is usually because of an unpatched xorg dummy driver, for
>     more details see:
>     http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/DPI
>     > and control characters don't work.
>     What are those specifically?
>     Make sure "control-command" are or aren't swapped, depending on your
>     expectations (see apple menu entry toggle or command line option).
>     If that doesn't help, try xev in an xpra session to verify we are
>     sending the right key events.
> 
>     > In addition, the data structure returned by
>     > "setxkbmap -print" is empty.
>     That is not needed on the OSX client, which does not use X11.
>     It should never be empty on the server.
> 
>     Cheers
>     Antoine
> 
>     > Suggestions?
>     >
>     > TIA,
>     >
>     > S
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