[SOLVED] Keymapping macOS / SPICE / noVNC

[g1lby]

Hello everyone,

I've just upgraded to the latest stable version of Proxmox VE and I really like it!

Unfortunately there is one question, that I couldn't solve myself and it seems like I'm pretty much alone with this situation. Even though I'm still hoping to find some useful hints here.

I work from macOS and in the console view I first wanted to type simple forward-slashes while specifying the htt p:// location of a CentOS-kickstartfile.
Very soon I recognized, there is no forward-slash included in the keymap which was loaded. There are several keys which type question marks but not a single one (not even with modifiers like shift- option- or command-key) is typing a simple "/".
Then I've read myself through several threads and saw, that with SPICE I should be able to paste the contents from my clipboard, so I immediately tried this. CTRL-V and CMD-V... nothing worked. Then I thought to myself... what if only the shortcut <SHIFT>-<INSERT> would work? If that's true, I am in shit. Because there is no shortcut and no emulation for that key in macOS.

I also have no option to modify the keymap for either noVNC or SPICE.

I really really need to type a forward-slash and it can't be some kind of sorcery to make that happen, right?
Please, tell me I'm right... :'D

Cheers,
g1lby

 

[g1lby]

/push

 

[LnxBil]

Yeah, I also run into problems like this, yet I never encountered the / not to work. It is often just mapped to the english layout (I normally use german layout).

In rare situation in which nothing worked, I use the qemu-monitor to send the keys directly to the VM. That works all the time and you can use it from the GUI and also from the command line.

 

[g1lby]

Hi LnxBil,

thanks for your reply. I draw a keyboard to visualize how f**ked up the keymap is, but don't take my word for it, check it out yourself ;-)

 

[g1lby]

Finally got it solved. Switching the local keyboard layout on my macOS machine from "German" to "English PC" got it working.