Hi Aivils and Xorg list, thank You very much Your help! That solved the keyboard problem, but generated another one. :( Now every key works fine in Xepyr, but the problem is now that Xephyr gets all the keystrokes, even if the focus is out of it, and moved into another window. If I type into a normal xterm outside Xephyt, it goes into the xterm and into Xephyr at the same time. Maybe I do something wrong? That's how I exactly start up Xephyr: Xephyr :1 -keybd evdev,,device=/dev/input/event3,xkbmodel=evdev I did not use "-mouse" you suggested, because the mouse worked well before. The /dev/input/event3 comes from `ls /dev/input/by-*/*-kbd | head -1` This evaluates to a symlink to /dev/input/event3 on my system, that's why I set device to /dev/input/event3 above. Did I misunderstand something? If not, is it possible to tell Xephyr to read the keyboard only if it has the focus? u. <div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/4 <<a href="mailto:aivils@latnet.lv">aivils@latnet.lv</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, I suppose that patch is into mainstream. Xephyr -mouse evdev,,device=/dev/input/evdev1 -keybd evdev,,device=/dev/input/evdev0,xkbmodel=evdev,xkblayout=us If You use this commandline, then You bypass X server events and use Linux mouse and keyboard directly. Aivils Citēju Nokan Emiro <<a href="mailto:uzleepito@gmail.com">uzleepito@gmail.com</a>>: <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > Hello, > > I use Xephyr for xdmcp connections to my server, but > unfortunatelly it has keyboard problems. Arrow keys > do not work in it. I've googled a bit, and found that others > have the same problem. Somewhere I've found that "-kb" > switches off the KBD extension in Xephyr, and maybe it > helps on keyboard mistakes. It didn't, but as I can see > it makes the Xephyr server differently wrong. It means > that other keys are incorrect with "-kb". Then I've found > an old patch to solve this with other kind of problems, > but that patch does not apply to the current version anymore. > > This is the old patch: > <a href="http://cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/SPECS/x11-server/0010-Xephyr-evdev-support.txt?revision=1.1" target="_blank">http://cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/SPECS/x11-server/0010-Xephyr-evdev-support.txt?revision=1.1</a> > > Is it possible to repair Xephyr? Or are there any other > xdmcp capable clients out there (except Xnest and Xephyr)? > > u. > </div></div></blockquote></div>