[FreeNX-kNX] Keyboard Layout using RDP connections

Phil Stricker stril at gmx.de
Thu Aug 30 18:21:12 UTC 2007


Hi!

Thank you for your response!
>> I am using FreeNX in multiple scenarios, but there is one big problem, I 
>> could not solve:
>> I cannot use a german keyboard layout connecting to a RDP server via NX. 
>> There is always the us-layout working.
>>     
>
> Hm, strange. I thought this was fixed long ago.
>   
Do you have any system, that works in this way? Which linux distribution 
are you using then?
> One thing I could imagine is that it can't find the /usr/NX/share/keymaps.
>
> You could strace the process to check that.
>   
How could I do this? (sorry for that stupid question)
>   
>> I tried freenx on Debian, Fedora and Suse systems.
>> Setting a "fix" keyboard layout in nxclient does not affect a change.
>> I updated to version 0.7.0.
>>     
>
> Anyway: 
>
> Workaround:
>
> Try running a normal session and use newest rdesktop normally with the commands you want.
>
> It should be _almost_ the same speed an dis the preferred method in NX 3.0.0.
>   
Connecting to Gnome and starting the rdesktop-session there works, but 
thats quite long winded...

Thank you for your help!

Greetings
Phil



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