Re: Broken arrow keys for browser access to proxmox and ESXi

RVP <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 at 21:22, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm using NetBSD to access some proxmox and ESXi systems via a web browser.
>
> In each case when I try to use the in-browser console access to any of
> the VMs the arrow keys are broken - specifically down arrow appears to
> return newline, and left & right arrow nothing.
>

Could this be it? If I try the arrow keys here:

https://keyjs.dev/

`e.code' isn't what corresponds to the physical layout--it shows what you said.

Don't know why this difference with Linux happens. Both `xev -event keyboard'
and `xkbcli interactive-x11' come back with the correct keycodes and keysyms--
as far as I can see.

Someone'll have to dig...deep!

-RVP
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