[X2Go-Dev] Mac keyboard fixes

[Steve Gaarder]

I installed the x2go client on a Mac, connecting to a Linux machine 
running x2goserver 4.0.1.19.  The keyboard is totally garbled.

I researched the situation.  This was in the bug database as bug 112, and 
to fix it, these lines were added to /usr/bin/x2gostartagent in 4.0.1.8:

# Mac OS keyboard issue workaround: for old/broken clients that used to 
call type=query and usekbd=0...
if [ "$X2GO_KBD_TYPE" = "query" ]; then
        X2GO_SET_KBD=1
fi

These lines were then removed in the fix for bug #348, with the log 
message:

- Revert keyboard workaround for Mac OS X, as it causes other issues.

In my case, if those lines are there it works, and if they aren't it 
doesn't.  Now I expect that someday one of my users will hit #348, so I 
want to help fix this one properly.  Can anyone provide some background 
info to help me get started?

thanks,


Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
gaarder at math.cornell.edu