#1152 closed enhancement (fixed)
intercept all keys before the desktop
| Reported by: | Antoine Martin | Owned by: | alas |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 0.17 |
| Component: | platforms | Version: | trunk |
| Keywords: | win32 | Cc: | johnss1221@… |
Description
From this mailing list discussion: http://lists.devloop.org.uk/pipermail/shifter-users/2016-March/001497.html, it would be nice if we could catch the special keys like the windows key and forward them to the server.
The Virtual-Key Codes shows VK_LWIN as 0x5B and VK_RWIN as 0x5c.
Looks like we will need SetWindowsHookEx as per this answer: Python and SetWindowsHookExA.
Alternatively we could use pyhook or pyhk. (meh)
This is for win32, not sure what we can do for X11 without grabbing the keyboard..
Change History (8)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by
| Status: | new → assigned |
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comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by
| Owner: | changed from Antoine Martin to alas |
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| Status: | assigned → new |
- r12228 sends the key event to the server (and should deal with most modifier keys - but not all, this will have to do)
- r12229 makes this behaviour off by default, enable it with the env var:
XPRA_FORWARD_WINDOWS_KEY=1(I don't have time to make a command line option and do all the man page updates that go with it)
Tested using xev to see the Super_R event server side, I cannot test with the left hand side windows key because my virtualbox VM does not pass it through to the guest.
@afarr: mostly a FYI, I don't think you want to capture the windows key in your setup. New beta build uploaded. Feel free to test or just close it.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by
| Cc: | johnss1221@… added |
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comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by
@johnss1221: there are windows beta builds including this change - does this work for you? (see comment:2 for enabling it)
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by
Not heard back, so I'll assume that this works as expected.
@afarr: feel free to test or just close.
comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Tried to test a little, but I'm not sure what windows keyboard commands I can expect a fedora server to know what to do with.
Maybe maxmylyn will test with a shadow server... in any case though, I'll close this.
comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by
This is now enabled by default when grabs are active, see ticket:1195#comment:1
comment:8 Changed 3 months ago by
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1152
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Mostly done in r12226, still TODO:
Super_LandSuper_R?)AltGrand have a better workaround? (#1119)