[Thinlinc-technical] FreeRDP: Keyboard layout detection

[Rafael Ostertag]

Hi list

We're running ThinLinc 4.1 on the clients and servers on top of Ubuntu 
12.04. The clients use different keyboard layouts, e.g. Swiss German, 
US, etc, which works fine so far.

However, we need to use FreeRDP 1.1 to connect to our Windows 2012 R2 
RDS servers and the keyboard layout detection of FreeRDP is giving me 
headaches:

By default, when launching FreeRDP on a ThinLinc Server, it tries to 
detect the keyboard layout from the xkb file. In our case, this always 
results in a US keyboard detection, even if the client uses a Swiss 
keyboard, for instance. (Disabling the detection via xkb files at 
compile time, results in the same behavior)

Changing the keyboard map in a ThinLinc session, let's say using 
`setxkbmap', to match what the client is actually using, makes FreeRDP 
pick up the proper keyboard map. So far, so good.

Now, the question is, is it possible to get FreeRDP work in a similar 
way to rdesktop, which more or less "auto detects" the keyboard layout, 
regardless of what the VNC Server thinks it is? If yes, how can that be 
achieved?

Thanks for your time.

cheers
rafi

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