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    VM console borks with "Alt Gr" key

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    • ForzaF Offline
      Forza
      last edited by Forza

      Hi!

      It seems that when using a VM console in XOA, the keyboard input borks out when using "Alt Gr" key to type things like "@" (Alt Gr+2) or "" (Alt Gr+? (key next to the 0)). It is tricky to get it back working again. This problem is the same in both Linux consoles and in Windows VMs.

      I'm using Swedish keyboard layout in my VMs.

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      • olivierlambertO Offline
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
        last edited by

        Hi,

        It's probably due to the version of noVNC we are using. As we are working on a new UI, we'll use all modern versions of all libs, so that might fix your issue 🙂

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        • ForzaF Offline
          Forza @olivierlambert
          last edited by Forza

          @olivierlambert OK I hope so 😃 Especially not being able to type those keys properly is kind of a bother 😏 It does work in XCP-ng Center, luckilly.

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          • olivierlambertO Offline
            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
            last edited by

            Yes, but it's always more tricky in a browser than in a heavy client 😛

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            • C Offline
              cg
              last edited by

              The problem is still persistent or exisiting again.

              Exactly: You can use ALT GR once and get the symbol you need (@ |...) but afterwarts it's just putting weird symbols into the console.
              Dirty fix: Change the tab to whatever (general, stats...) and and back to console.

              Still pretty annoying and kicked me out of one of my servers for some time (thx fail2ban...). 😕

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              • ForzaF Offline
                Forza @olivierlambert
                last edited by

                @olivierlambert said in VM console borks with "Alt Gr" key:

                Yes, but it's always more tricky in a browser than in a heavy client 😛

                It is something we would like to see fixed, since we have a enterprise plan 🙂 In any case, for now the XCP-ng Center works better here. Also allows a pop-out view over the console too.

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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                  last edited by

                  As I said, it's a noVNC issue on a non-recent version. It might work better with XO Lite (first alpha with console should be around this quarter)

                  We can't easily update noVNC right now.

                  If you want to put more pressure on the dev team about this because you have XOA with pro support, please open a support ticket.

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                  • K Offline
                    KPS Top contributor @olivierlambert
                    last edited by

                    @olivierlambert

                    I can confirm: This issue is solved in XO Lite, but still present in XOA.

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