"Type it" sent each character's keysym and let QEMU pick the key from
its own US map, with Shift added for the US shifted characters. A VM
on another layout got other characters: on Turkish Q, '"' typed 'İ',
'@' typed "'", and ğ, ü, ş, ı, ö, ç typed nothing.
The Clipboard dialog now asks for the VM's keyboard layout and
remembers it per browser. Each character is typed as the key that makes
it on that layout (its scancode), with Shift, AltGr or both (AltGr
first: pressed after Shift, the right Alt is Alt on the Linux console),
so the VM's own layout makes the character. The layout is fixed when
typing starts. Text with a character no key types on the layout is not
typed at all, and the dialog lists those characters: a password or a
command with a character left out would be a wrong one.
A layout is one file in console/layouts/: its name and, for each key,
the characters it types plainly, with Shift, with AltGr and with
Shift+AltGr. The view offers every file, US first. dev/console_layout.py
writes a file from the system's XKB data as libxkbcommon computes it
(through ctypes, no new dependency), mapping keys to DOM codes with
noVNC's table from QEMU's keycodemapdb; it lists the dead keys it leaves
out, and drops the keys the keyboard model lacks (the key left of Z on
US pc104 keyboards). English (US) and Turkish Q come with it; the
README says how to add one.
The VM page offered a lite and a full VNC console. Lite lacked a clipboard,
display settings and a way to reconnect; full put noVNC's own side bar under
the panel's bar, with a Fullscreen item that called a function noVNC does
not have, status messages hidden behind the bar, saved noVNC settings that
overrode the Access tab's, connection settings that cannot apply, and a
Connect button that reused the page's two-minute token and failed.
console-vnc.html and static/js/console_vnc.js replace both, on noVNC's RFB
with Bootstrap controls, and keep what the full view did:
- Status in the bar (Connecting, Connected, Disconnected, Connection lost,
Could not connect, Authentication failed with the server's reason on
hover); Disconnect, then Reconnect, which loads the page again for a new
token.
- The VNC password in a dialog (with a username when the server asks for
one), not a browser prompt; without passwordless console it is not in
the page.
- Send key(s) gains Hold Ctrl / Alt / Windows (noVNC's extra keys).
- Clipboard: what the VM copies, sending text to the VM's clipboard, and
typing it key by key (new: works in firmware, installers and login
prompts; Shift for the characters a US keyboard shifts, 25 ms a key as
firmware drops faster keys, verified in a UEFI shell).
- View: scaling (none, fit, resize the VM's screen), clip, drag a clipped
screen, view only, dot cursor, quality, compression; it starts as
Settings > Console says (a touch screen starts fitted).
- A Keyboard item on touch devices (noVNC's on-screen keyboard input,
key events and Android's text-only input), Fullscreen with keyboard
lock, the bell.
Dropped with the full view: noVNC's websocket host/port/path, repeater ID
and log level (the panel fixes them), automatic reconnect (the token is
single use in time), XVP power buttons (QEMU has no XVP) and shared-mode off.
The bar is compact (about 45 px in the 850x600 window). The Access tab has
one Console button instead of the Lite/Full split and four switches, and
it and the VM list open one window per VM (opening it again reloads it).
