On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:41:19 -0800, Michael Taboada wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a small vm server running kvm + libvirt, and I made a simple shell 
> script that allows users to ssh in and control their vms (power off, etc). 
> However, one of my users uses the french canadian keyboard layout on her home 
> computer, and upon being told "escape character is ^]" expected to need to 
> press ctrl+right-alt_] (] being in the same location it is on a US keyboard). 
> This is because on a french canadian layout, the right bracket key is in the 
> same spot at on US layout, but needs to press right alt with it or it is the 
> c-cedilla key. However, upon pressing ctrl+right-alt+c-cedilla, nothing 
> happens (even this is ctrl+right bracket on a canadian keyboard). Instead, 
> pressing ctrl+c-cedilla on her canadian french keyboard exits the console as 
> if it were using a US layout. My question: how to make it so pressing 
> ctrl+(canadian ]) works? Is this something that has to be done on the vm 
> side, or on the host side, or maybe on the client ssh side?
> I'd prefer it be something thast can be different based on who is using the 
> virsh console  command since me, as the admin, may need to help with the 
> console at some points, and my keyboard is US, so I have no c-cedilla or 
> canadian right bracket key, but she does.

'virsh -e' allows you to specify your own escape key if that helps

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