[Thinlinc-technical] FreeRDP: Keyboard layout detection

[Rafael Ostertag]

Hi Jens

On 02/05/2014 10:59 AM, Jens Maus wrote:
 >>
 >> 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.
 >
 > Have you tried downgrading to FreeRDP 1.0.3dev (Use the stable-1.0
 > github tree - https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/tree/stable-1.0)?
 >
 > AFAIR this was one of the reasons why we downgraded from 1.1 when
 > using FreeRDP from within a ThinLinc session.

I tried the stable 1.0 branch (to be honest, I just fetched the ZIP 
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/archive/stable-1.0.zip. I did not 
pull the git repo). It seems to behave in the same way as FreeRDP 1.1, 
i.e. the keyboard layout only works properly when first set to match the 
client's layout, using `setxkmap'. Is there anything I have to pay 
attention to when compiling, or a certain command line option?

TIA.

cheers
rafi

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