I can't reproduce the issue, even with a Finnish keyboard layout on the
client.  Weird.


On 10/24/19 2:24 PM, Kimmo wrote:
> Hello, 
>
> I didn't find any post on this issue so I thought this might be useful for 
> somebody strugling with the keypad numbers not being recognized correctly on 
> the server side. 
>
> I noticed the keypad numbers (with num lock on) were recognized as regular 
> numerical keys (on the top row of the keyboard) on the server side. I checked 
> this with 'xev'. This is not an issue in most cases but for example with 
> Blender there is a difference between the numerical keys and numpad keys. 
>
> I was able to fix this issue by opening 'Onboard' (on-screen-keyboard) in VNC 
> session on Mate desktop. By first inserting some keypad number with the 
> 'Onboard' (with num lock on) the keypad keys entered from the client side 
> physical keyboard were recognized correctly as KP_X keys. The keypad keys 
> were recognized correctly even after server side reboot. 
>
> The same behaviour was observed with four different systems with Ubuntu 16.04 
> and 18.04. The Mate desktop environment and lightdm was used in all cases. 
> All the keyboards used in the testing had Finnish layout but I'm not sure if 
> that has anything to do with this issue. The viewer was the non-Java Windows 
> version and the TurboVNC server version was 2.2.3.
>
> Great software regardless of this issue. 
>
> -Kimmo
>

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