Re: Using a french keyboard with the Windows viewer ?

Quentin Stafford-Fraser ()
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 21:01:52 +0100

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Yes, we are aware that VNC doesn't cope well with many keyboards. Until the
release we hadn't realised quite how restricting this can be, particularly
on keyboards using AltGr for common characters - AltGr isn't used at all on
UK/US layouts. It generates Ctrl-Alt, so a German keyboard user will get
Ctrl-Alt-Q when he expects to get '@'.

We are looking into it, and the next revision of the Windows package will
have better support for other keyboards. Apologies for our Anglo-centric
viewpoint! it may be possible to use something like xmodmap to get the keys
in some other way until then.

Regards,
Quentin

-----Original Message-----
From: GICQUEL Pascal <>
To: vnc mailing list <>
Date: 31 March 1998 16:10
Subject: Using a french keyboard with the Windows viewer ?
...
>All is working fine except that I cannot use Alternate keys (the ones
>normally accessed via Alt Gr). On a french keyboard, it means that I cannot
>type characters as "~#{[|`\^@]}".
...

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