Xpra: Ticket #859: Remote browser commands don't work in Chrome HTML 5 viewer

I suspect the wording will get a bit confusing.


Using the HTML 5 Viewer with Firefox on Windows and Ubuntu against a Fedora 21 server running trunk r9357:

Issuing commands to Firefox running remotely such as ctrl + t and ctrl + w work in Windows and Ubuntu, but do not work with Google Chrome in Windows and Ubuntu. If I attempt to use these commands then they are directed to Google Chrome running locally, rather than Firefox on the remove machine.


However, OSX isn't an issue at the moment as the Control and Command keys haven't been swapped yet(those pesky OSX users...) so ctrl + t will open a tab on the remote Firefox and cmd + t will open a tab locally in Safari and Google Chrome. Firefox, however indicates that you gave it a command(cmd + t) to open or close a tab but doesn't actually open or close a tab.


I have a feeling it may be an issue on other platforms(Fedora, Debian, Arch, etc), but my Cent6.4 machine is too old to run Google Chrome, and I haven't gotten Fedora working with our new test-bench environment.


As an aside, I'm not sure if there is a way around it depending on how Google Chrome handles the Control key.



Sun, 10 Apr 2016 06:09:48 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner changed

@maxmylyn: is this still a problem?


Sun, 10 Apr 2016 06:11:22 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed


Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:38:01 GMT - J. Max Mena: owner changed

Just accidentally tested it trying to get to this ticket. Yes, it is still a problem, at least as of r12379 (trunk, Fedora 23 server).

Of note: Still works as expected with Firefox. (both browsers in Windows)


Thu, 14 Apr 2016 04:10:24 GMT - Antoine Martin: status, milestone changed

Re-scheduling.


Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:29:51 GMT - Antoine Martin:

For some key combinations we can use preventDefault() to ensure the browser doesn't intercept the key event (but we still have to inject it into our key event handling code I think), but for some others it's just not possible: javascript capture browser shortcuts (ctrl+t/n/w): These combinations cannot get captured by Javascript, but embed plugins can capture these. So for these, we would need a plugin.


Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:35:21 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, status changed

See comment:5, as of r12793 we now intercept as much as we can so things like control-S will save the file in gedit rather than triggering the save page action of the browser.

Doing more than that would require a browser plugin...


Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:47:57 GMT - J. Max Mena: status changed; resolution set

Excellent! Firefox is now usable....within Firefox.

Closing.


Fri, 24 Jun 2016 22:45:41 GMT - J. Max Mena:

Quick note to anyone who didn't read the links in comment:5


Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:52:22 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

Milestone renamed


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:08:05 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/859