Hi Sascha and Tomeu,<div><br></div><div>I've tried this briefly on Karmic Koala Ubuntu and have not encountered any problems.</div><div>The keyboard mappings seem to work fine.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div> <br></div><div>- Dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net">tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 18:44, Sascha Silbe<br> <<a href="mailto:sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel@silbe.org">sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel@silbe.org</a>> wrote:<br> > Hi!<br> ><br> > As many of you are probably aware we're having considerable trouble [1,2]<br> > with Xephyr, the X server currently used in sugar-emulator.<br> > I've finally managed to get VNC working for sugar-emulator on all of the<br> > distros supported by sugar-jhbuild and would like these changes to be merged<br> > in mainline. [3]<br> <br> </div>Has anybody else had a chance to try this out? Would like to merge it<br> but I think more than one people should have tried it.<br> <br> Thanks,<br> <br> Tomeu<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> > Dependencies added:<br> > * Debian/Ubuntu: vnc4server, xvnc4viewer<br> > * Fedora: tigervnc, tigervnc-server<br> > * Ubuntu: lsb_release (for triggering a Ubuntu-specific workaround)<br> ><br> > Dependencies removed:<br> > * Xephyr<br> ><br> ><br> > User experience changes:<br> > + non-US keyboards are working properly<br> > * F8 is mapped to VNC menu (can send plain F8, but not <modifier>+F8)<br> > * VNC grabs the keyboard in full screen mode<br> > + no window manager interference<br> > - no way to switch away from VNC (other switching to window mode using F8<br> > menu)<br> ><br> ><br> > Other changes:<br> > + SL#17 [4] fixed<br> ><br> ><br> > Tested on:<br> > * Debian squeeze (for several months)<br> > * Ubuntu Intrepid<br> > * Ubuntu Jaunty<br> > * Fedora 12<br> ><br> ><br> > [1] <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342" target="_blank">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342</a><br> > [2] <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/310" target="_blank">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/310</a><br> > [3] <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1659" target="_blank">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1659</a><br> > [4] <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/17" target="_blank">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/17</a><br> ><br> > CU Sascha<br> ><br> > --<br> > <a href="http://sascha.silbe.org/" target="_blank">http://sascha.silbe.org/</a><br> > <a href="http://www.infra-silbe.de/" target="_blank">http://www.infra-silbe.de/</a><br> </div></div>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)<br> ><br> > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLVJ31AAoJELpz82VMF3DaDhIH/jHNWHnf3pELnIeT1Vo3wB3G<br> > kDHcO5enWdxoukF+5Y5ZfMKbqCVD9L3vggUoT/mkIAicidARLPA4hOpo2/X7qjZF<br> > aZuI+CvDTwVCMxzph5MjsFGusVdDIVIwwCCD1uqC4s90w7SMVVY9bfnjMxW906K9<br> > Yqb7xKsuuHgF5NHOxBqoxtCzAF83afjlx1QyfRGplxHfdQRWhPW9zdR1Nmt72jJ/<br> > DcJbzRg+g+3niiA3PQXw1DVaAl4cp9F8eR6jL0EQis9gRSjxltRf8jfal1CYegKf<br> > HSyLzmP/3vhKQ+K8OUPTFqoCv0MPJ0Twd+WpvRLAwWrYsWrJsOdM/9YgxnVhQbA=<br> > =CEOX<br> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5">><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > Sugar-devel mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> ><br> ><br> _______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>