[Thinlinc-technical] XKB based keyboard switching not working...

[Jens Langner]

Hi Tobias,

nice to see you here as well on the list ;)

Am 30.05.2013 um 11:04 schrieb Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch>:

>> Have anyone else discovered the same problem and might have a
>> solution for us? Currently we have the XKB extension switched off
>> and force the users to select the correct keyboard layout on the
>> client side before they connect to the ThinLinc server. However,
>> this is really only a short-term solution for us as our users
>> really have to be able to switch keyboard layouts while they are
>> connected using shortcuts or GUI tools or by setxkbmap.
> 
> we are using xkb with sun-international keyborads, there it works
> fine, but we recently tried with swiss-german keyboards and failed
> completely ...
> 
> I think the next version of thinlinc is going to support xkb
> properly ...


Oh, that's good to hear. Is there actually a preview or nightly build version we could try? I would be highly interested in trying that version out and give some feedback to cendio as we have quite a variety of international users here with different kind of keyboards attached.

best regards,
jens
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