vnc viewer(s) - strange behavior

deadmeat73

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Apr 26, 2023
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Hi

I've configured my VMs to be accessed by a VNC viewer (args: -vnc etc). Everything works fine but I'm having difficulties with keyboard mapping.
I'm using an italian keyboard and depending on the VNC client and the guest OS some keys do not work or show different characters. Proxmox console always works fine.
If the guest OS is windows no problems at all, I can use VNC Viewer, UltraVNC (on windows), TigerVNC, TightVNC... everything is fine. If the guest OS is linux then only TigerVNC works perfectly, while all the other have problems with some keys like ? becomes _ while ì does not work at all.

I don't mind using TigerVNC but I'm just curious to understand why this is happening.
 

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