Re: SDL, VNC and ARAnyM

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Farrell
Hi, On 14 August 2013 06:03, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Michael Farrell dixit: > >scancodes that correspond to the ASCII value of that letter, as VNC does > >not pass layout information. > > VNC cannot pass any information it doesn’t have – there *is* no > layout information > That's true, and I'

Re: SDL, VNC and ARAnyM

2013-08-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Andreas Schwab dixit: >Look for "Detected scancode offset" messages from aranym. (IMHO there >should be an option to hardcode the offset, since the detection can An offset does not help *at all* if a=a and s=b. bye, //mirabilos -- 17:08⎜«Vutral» früher gabs keine packenden smartphones und so 1

Re: SDL, VNC and ARAnyM

2013-08-14 Thread Andreas Schwab
Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > FWIW, once in a while my ARAnyM keyboard layout is completely screwed > up. I have the impression there's a relationship with holding a modifier > while ARAnyM starts up. Look for "Detected scancode offset" messages from aranym. (IMHO there should be an option to ha

Re: SDL, VNC and ARAnyM

2013-08-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>scancodes that correspond to the ASCII value of that letter, as VNC does >>not pass layout information. > > VNC cannot pass any information it doesn’t have – there *is* no > layout information (although with the exception of the left Alt >

Re: SDL, VNC and ARAnyM

2013-08-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Farrell dixit: >scancodes that correspond to the ASCII value of that letter, as VNC does >not pass layout information. VNC cannot pass any information it doesn’t have – there *is* no layout information (although with the exception of the left Alt key, Escape and ` keys (which I swapped),

Re: SDL, VNC and ARAnyM

2013-08-13 Thread Michael Farrell
Hi Thorsten, On 13 August 2013 22:30, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > [...] Which is why I was hoping for an SDL VNC backend, so I can just > run ARAnyM in the background and connect to it using VNC possibly > over SSH. Maybe that would get the keys right…? > I've spent some time this evening getting

SDL, VNC and ARAnyM

2013-08-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi! I’m using ARAnyM to emulate m68k machines, and it uses SDL as backend which currently forces me to do one of these two things if I want to run a VM on a remote machine: • run with dummy backend, so I get all the console messages of the VM on stdout (but stdin is ignored, so the Linux consol