On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:44 PM, <free...@martins.cc> wrote:
>
> > FreeRDP could have a 'use client side keyboard layout'
> > mode that worked that way. But since you are moving
> > modifier keys around I doubt it will help you.)
>
> I just make the caps control key be an extra control key.
> Again, it works on the linux X system via xmodmap, it works
> on the windows console via a register keyboard layout entry,
> it works when I rdesktop from linux to windows, so it is
> possible and I've been working like this for several years.
> I was just giving FreeRDP a try as I think it's going to be
> a better program.
>
> > The basic mode of operation for the RDP protocol is to
> > transfer some kind of keyboard scan codes to the server
> > and the server uses its keyboard layouts to map to unicode
> > symbols and modifiers.
>
> When I press the left control key xev shows me a keycode of
> 37 and a keysym of 0xffe3. When I press the caps control
> key xev shows me a keycode of 66 and the same keysym. My
> local applications probably only get the keysym. I guess
> FreeRDP is sending the different keycodes to the remote
> system and rdesktop some keycode equivalent to the keysym.
>
> > I guess your problem is that xfreerdp happens to give a
> > keyboard layout hint to the server that do that it doesn't
> > use your custom layout on the server side.
>
> On the remote side I have a scancode map in the register:
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
> which only maps capslock to left control. On the console
> keycodes get mapped through it. With rdesktop the remote
> system never gets a caps lock keycode, with Free RDP it
> does. I wonder if there is a way to tell the terminal
> server to map through it. That would solve my problem.
>
That's perfect, do you have the ID? For instance Canadian Multilingual
Standard is 0x00011009
I just checked and the keyboard layout options aren't in 1.0 yet, but once
they'll be back in all you'll need to do is add -k <keyboard layout id> to
your command line
>
> -- Henrique
>
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