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Nick Couchman commented on GUACAMOLE-2016:
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[~smal78]: I do not believe we intend to develop any sort of "thick client" for
Guacamole - indeed, the stated goal of Guacamole is to be a "clientless" remote
desktop interface, where only a browser is needed. I think there are a few
other folks who have taken a stab at porting the client into a NodeJS-based
framework, but I don't have those links handy, and I'm not sure it's something
that we'd really consider doing as part of the project. I'll let Mike comment
more on that, if he wants to.
There are some features in the upcoming 1.6.0 release that may help you -
there's a full screen and keyboard lock functionality that might help with some
of the shortcuts, although, as I've cautioned in tickets related to those
features, whether that functionality actually results in additional keyboard
shortcuts being passed through to the remote desktop versus being intercepted
by the local O/S is hit-or-miss, and, in my experience, mostly miss.
> 'Thick client' for Guacamole just like Win RDP (to support Alt + Tab)
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> Key: GUACAMOLE-2016
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-2016
> Project: Guacamole
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: guacamole
> Reporter: Ronald
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: GAUCAMOLE rdp via Ubuntu VM.png
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> My company has recently implemented Guacamole for WFH - so far so good, it is
> pretty stable vs previous RDP infrastructure. So thanks to all your team out
> there!!
> However, the one thing I cannot get accustomed to is the inability to use
> keyboard shortcuts. It slows me down terribly, Alt + Tab muscle memory is
> just too strong...
> -> please is there a plan to develop a 'wrapper' - e.g. a Guacamole thick
> client that would support keyboard shortcuts (like Win 10 native RDP client
> does)? I would massively vote for that.
> After 1-2 MDs of experimenting, I have found a workaround - PFA diagram. Both
> source and target machines are Win 10 and I connect via Chrome. So I use a
> Linux VM as a go-between to supress / modify keyboard shortcuts reserved for
> OS. Hope that helps anyone. Thank you - esp. to [~vnick] who commented on
> related issue GUACAMOLE-1484, leading me to investigating the Linux route
>
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