Xpra: Ticket #1373: shared mode keyboard conflicts

Follow up from ticket:41#comment:39. Each new client connection overwrites the keymap.

We need to keep track of who owns the keyboard (separate from "ui-driver"?) and either:



Sat, 18 Feb 2017 10:01:24 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner changed

Done in r15110. We can now connect multiple clients with completely different keymaps (different OS, different layout, etc) and each client should still be able to use most of their keys.. The first client to connect will still "own" the keymap, which means that we won't be adding new layouts from the secondary clients.

How to test:

Both clients should be able to use the keyboard and have the correct keys appear in applications (ie: xterm).

Note: this ticket is not meant to give 100% coverage of keyboard input when sharing is enabled (which may not be achievable anyway), just to make it a lot more usable than before.


Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:58:13 GMT - J. Max Mena: status changed; resolution set

Tested (trunk Fedora 25 server, and Fedora 25 and Win8.1 clients) and it seems to behave, at least with my two identically-layed-out ENG-US keyboards. Closing


Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:47:42 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Follow up: #1716


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:22:28 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1373