Hello!

Many thanks for your reply.

I'll try to check that all out in the next days. I thought, "you are pretty sure" wrong and re-testet it immidiately - it is the same for xterm, like I remembered from older tests (to avoid issues with mate-/xfce-/konsole terms).

Manfred

----- Original Message ----- From: Ulrich Sibiller [mailto:uli42@gmx.de] To: <webman@manfbraun.de> Cc: x2go-user@lists.x2go.org Sent: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 21:06:30 +0200 Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Big problem with keyboard/layout

This is most likely because your desktop environment (xfce) is setting the keyboard itself AFTER x2go does.

x2go determines the keyboard using this or a similar command and passes the keyboard to the other side where it calls setxkbmap (there's also an option to let x2goagent do all this itself without setxkbmap, see man nxagent; but for this problem it will probably not help). If the desktop environment kicks it AFTER the x2go setting will be gone.

You can check by running setxkbmap -query both INSIDE the session and locally.

And you can fix it (temporarily) by running INSIDE the session "setxkbmap -model ... - layout ... -rules ... -variant ... -option ..." based on the values from your local setxkbmap. (leave out parameters your setxkbmap -query does not print).

You can also run an test session where you just specify xterm as your "desktop environment". I am pretty sure the keyboard will be correct then.

Can you confirm?

Uli

On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 7:16 PM <webman@manfbraun.de> wrote: > > Hello! > > I hope, I can find some help here. > I started once setting up x2goserver in a LXC container > on a remote host and this, in some way, worked so far > (except for using webbrowsers, which have only horrible > performance and no sound) and even consoles have the > right layout. > > Then I could not find an ytime to continue. > Now, I setup x2goserver on thre computers, means, > direcly like usually on the hardware (x2go: 4.1.0.3-4). > All my boxes running debian10, kernel 5.10 running xfce, > english setup, using a german keyboard layout. > > Shockingly, the keyboards are all wrong and unusable, > there is, most prominent, no pipe character (and others > are missed too, like the navigations keys, <alt-gr>, <del> > but umlauts are correkt!). If you press <alt-gr> a beep > ist issued. > This happens to x-consoles as gui progs! > XRDP, on the other hand, worked as before. > > I was unable to find documentation, which points out > how this all works, how keyboard/maps are done by default > on client and server, how this is initialized or how > this could be changed and on which side (or a full > shortcut reference). I tried to modify the settings > on the client-gui (4.1.2.2 ) session configuration, > but no variant (like "de-de") has influence at all. > > Thanks any way, > Manfred > > _______________________________________________ > x2go-user mailing list > x2go-user@lists.x2go.org > https://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user