#15 hash key outputs 3 instead of #

[Tony Austin]

Using version 4.3.0.101 Xvnc hash key gives wrong output.

This seems to have gone wrong at the same time that you
cured the back-tab problem, which was between versions
4.3.0.5pre2 and 4.3.0.5pre3 that you sent me on 7th and
8th August.

This is the output from xev when the hash key is pressed:-

KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x600001,
root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 2006634128, (-280,584),
root:(550,608),
state 0x0, keycode 12 (keysym 0x33, 3), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: "3"

KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0x600001,
root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 2006634308, (-280,584),
root:(550,608),
state 0x0, keycode 12 (keysym 0x33, 3), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: "3"

Tony

[Alan Hourihane]

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Mmmm. I certainly don't see this one Tony.

Can you tell me what flags you are passing to Xvnc and are
you executing an setxkbmap commands ?

Also are you using -kb or not ? Even so, I don't see it with -
kb or not too though.

[Alan Hourihane]

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Tony,

Did you get chance to read this bug report ?

[Tony Austin]

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Alan

I am starting Xvnc with the vncserver script and passing
-depth 16 geometry 1270x968 -kb

I am not executing any setxkbmap commands.

Odd, i'n'it?

Tony

[Tony Austin]

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Alan

I have just set this up on another machine and sadly do have
the problem with the 3 and # on this too when using 4.3.0.101.

It's a real shame because this has the fix for the back-tab
problem.

Is there anything that I could do to help you debug it.

Tony

[rune_b]

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I seem to be having a similar problem with a danish keyboard
- here the shift-, yields a : (should be ;), shift-7 gives ?
(should be /) and serveral other mismatches between keys
pressed and characters entered.
I run Xvnc as a drop-in replacement from xinetd with
-inetd -query localhost -once -geometry 800x600 -depth 24

Apart from that I sometimes manage to get the system to miss
the key-up event (by pressing two keys almost
simultaniously) so it keeps the key pressed and keeps
entering characters. In that case, I can actually enter the
chars - just in a lot of copies...

I'm running on XFree 4.3.0.