I have just re-introduced the -k option
For the keyboard layout to be accepted, you need to log out and log back in
(the remote session)
For a quick test, use -k 0x408, it's a greek keyboard layout so it'll be
quite obvious if it worked or not.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Marc-André Moreau <
marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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