Using sonic pi remotely

[GeorgBisseling]

When using sonic-pi remotely I observed that the play_pad command will not work with the mouse at the remote X-terminal. Outside class rooms headless Pis are quite common, you know.

Second: when "playing" or "stopping" a script I can actually see the color change in the editor beeing painted line by line instead of a rectangle. I can not guess how deep this inefficiency is burried in the Ruby-GUI framework that you use. But could be easy to fix. Or is this a desired effect?

[GeorgBisseling]

I just tried it without the two calls to lexer->setPaper() and that makes the program remotely usable - eh, you get my point ;-)

[samaaron]

I'm actually not using a Ruby-GUI, this is just standard Qt programmed in C++

I'll look into an option to turn the flash off, or to at least make it more efficient over an ssh connection. However, I think having the flash is really important for beginners to realise that their code is being evaluated...

[samaaron]

Please try the latest GUI in version 2.0 - it's changed a lot and hopefully it will support remote work. Feel free to re-open this issue if not.

[oyajiru]

Hi Sam, thanks for your wonderful work.

I'm having an issue with text input through VNC and xRDP. I used both my android phone as well as an Ubuntu system for clients. When I type something in Sonic-Pi it's like the keys are mapped all wrong. For instance some of the arrow keys affect window geometry, letters are not where they should be. Otherwise I have no problems with text input in other programs on the raspbian server working remotely.

Is this a bug or should I tweak something on my end?

[samaaron]

@oyajiru I have no idea what's causing your issue at all. When you use Sonic Pi directly on the desktop - do you see this strange behaviour too?

[oyajiru]

@samaaron I just tried it on the desktop with a USB keyboard and that works just fine. The problem only shows up when using VNC or xRDP.

[samaaron]

Very odd! This isn't something I've seen before. Sorry you're having issues here.

Are you running Sonic Pi on Ubuntu or a Raspberry Pi?

[oyajiru]

I'm running Sonic-Pi on a Raspberry Pi 3 with raspbian.

[samaaron]

I'll see if I can replicate this locally and get back to you.

[oyajiru]

Thank you so much.

[CleoQc]

Months later but I'm facing the same problem now. Newest Jessie, newest SonicPi. I have tightvncserver installed and xrdp. My keyboard mapping is all wrong in Sonic Pi, but fine for everything else.

[Allball103]

Having the same issue here: raspberry pi 3, keyboard mapping is all wrong on SonicPi but nothing else. Did anyone ever find a fix?