Hi list, I've got an Arch linux box at work, which runs a tigervnc server. Sometimes when I'm traveling or working from home, I run the viewer off my laptop, which is also set up with Arch linux.
The setup is great, except when I need to type in cyrillic. There are two situations that give me problems: 1. When I want to enter cyrillic text directly into Microsoft Word (running on wine, don't flame me, it's not my choice). In this situation, say I'm typing in English, everything is working. Then, I toggle the keyboard layout (through a setxkbmap command) and begin to enter Russian text, but there is simply no response from Word. The cursor doesn't move and no text is entered. I toggle back to us layout and English text is entered into Word, as expected. An import point to note is that the same procedure produces expected results in other programs running through tigervnc. I mean that if I am working in Vim I can enter both Russian and English text by toggling the layout. 2. The second problem is when I attempt to copy cyrillic text from the local machine (laptop) to the remote machine (tigervnc server). I select some Russian text, say: Привет Всем! Middle clicking in a text field on the local machine produces expected results, the Russian text is inserted. However, middle-clicking in a text field (for example, vim) in the tigervnc viewer produces the following: ?????? ????! Middle clicking in Word in the viewer doesn't work because it gives the scroll bar thing, but typing Shift-Insert produces the same result as above -- question marks. It seems to me as though in transferring the cyrillic text from local machine to the remote machine, something gets jumbled. I would very much appreciate any suggestions or solutions. Config stuff: starting server: vncserver -localhost -geometry 1010x580 :1 $ cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1 autocutsel -fork xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources #xsetroot -solid grey setxkbmap -layout us,ru -option 'grp:toggle' #xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & exec twm Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-users mailing list Tigervnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users
