@Francois, if you have message "Autoselected keyboard map ru", try to run rdesktop with *correct* value of "-k" key, for example "-k en-us".
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rdesktop in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251709 Title: rdesktop works bad with several keyboard layouts Status in rdesktop package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: rdesktop Many people have many errors while working with rdesktop on a remote host having two or more keyboard layouts. For example, russian letter 'Б' sometimes are recognized as if it was pressed with Alt. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes symbols "." and "," do not work properly. One man founded a solution (raw keyboard support), it deskribed here: http://habrahabr.ru/blog/ubuntu/45595.html Alt Linux maintainers added patch to rdesktop, it's located here: http://sisyphus.ru/srpm/Sisyphus/rdesktop/patches After patch is applied, it is possible to use option '-y' to use raw keyboards. After that all problems with two or more keyboard layouts go away. Please include this patch while building this package. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rdesktop/+bug/251709/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
