You are right, bug is fixed in Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) and 19.04 (disco). I can type text in Kate even without XKB.
** Tags added: cosmic ** Tags removed: cosmic ** Tags added: xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to qtbase-opensource-src in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1831505 Title: Qt5 incorrectly interpret keypresses from remote VNC keyboard Status in qtbase-opensource-src package in Ubuntu: New Status in qttools-opensource-src package in Ubuntu: New Status in tightvnc package in Ubuntu: New Status in qtbase-opensource-src package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed with VNC server 2. Connect to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from other machine with VNC client 3. Launch any Qt5 based application such as `assistant`, `kate` or `retext` 4. Press keyboard combination on VNC client Expected results: all keypresses are recognized successfully Actual results: * <Shift> produces `1` * <Alt> produces `5` * <`> produces `p` * <Delete> and <Backspace> are not working * all letters are messed Note: only Qt applications are affected, the GTK-based work as expected (including Chromium from which I write this bug-report) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: qt5-assistant 5.9.5-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 4.4.78-perf+ aarch64 NonfreeKernelModules: wlan exfat ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: armhf CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Tue Jun 4 00:46:55 2019 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: qttools-opensource-src UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/1831505/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
