So I see this issue on google selenium site but it has not been resolved yet.
when you element.send_key('12345')
it will return '123'. The 5 is parsed as backspace....
is there a work around for this?
Using latest selenium, chrome, chromedriver, python 2.7, ubuntu 12.04
As dear @Epiwin mentioned ,it is a horrible bug in TightVNC or combination of chrome driver and it, I've removed it completely and install TigerVNC instead and eventually it worked.
BTW, I don't know why! but the speed of the remote connection increased after migrate to TigerVNC, and it was another good point for mine.
Python: Selenium send_key can't type numbers like 5 or 6