On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:40:22PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Package: virt-viewer > Version: 1.0-1 > Severity: important > > [ x-d-cc: debian-b...@lists.debian.org ] > > Hi, > > Trying to use xdotool (either on the command line or through its xdo > python bindings) fails when sending key events to a specific virt-viewer > window. In this case, XSendEvent is used instead of XTEST, which doesn't > seem to be supported by virt-viewer, and anything sent this way is > ignored.
Is there a simple one liner to test this? > It's possible to raise the virt-viewer window and then send key events > without specifying a target window, which is implemented using XTEST in > xdotool, but that means messing up with the focus in the surrounding > window environment, which is highly impractical. > > I've also tried switching from default spice to vnc, still no luck. No > changes when I tried 5.0-1 from a sid chroot. > > Any help/suggestion welcome, it prevents me from automating d-i tests > with libvirt. (While they do run fine with a “bare” kvm.) (I'm using a serial console if I want to grab VM output but I that would only work for testing the text based installer). Cheers, -- Guido
