[X2Go-User] Keyboard issues

[Robert Dinse]

      Actually it works with any Bourne Shell derivative as far as I've been
able to determine, /bin/sh, /bin/bash, /bin/dash, /bin/ksh, /bin/zsh, but
not any csh derivative.

      I had this problem too, my work around was to load Ubuntu onto my Mac
and stop using MacOS (which solved many other issues such as not being able
to cut-n-paste between X and non-X applications).

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On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311) wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 22:05:41 +0000
> From: "Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311)" <darby.vicker-1 at nasa.gov>
> To: "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: [X2Go-User] Keyboard issues
> 
> Hello,
>
> I'm having the same issues as described here:
>
> http://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-user/2015-May/003171.html
>
> In my case its a OSX client (4.0.5.0 ? from x2go.org) and a CentOS 7 server (4.0.1.19 ? from EPEL).  I'm trying to fire up a MATE session and the keyboard is not set properly when using tcsh as my login shell but it does work properly for bash.  There wasn't a solution in the above thread, other than switching to bash.  Has anyone found a workaround for tcsh?  More info on my investigation.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help in figuring out the problem or a good workaround.
>
> Thanks,
> Darby
>
>
> In either case I get a message on login that says:
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> Error activating XKB configuration.
> It can happen under various circumstances:
> a bug in libxklavier library
> a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
> X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation
>
> X server version data:
> The X.Org Foundation
> 70000000
>
> If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
> The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
> The result of gsettings list-keys org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.kbd
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> I'm sure this is related but since my keyboard is fine on base I don't think this is the root cause.
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>> From a session that works (bash):
>
> ~/.x2go/session.log says "keyboard file created"
> ~/.x2go/keyboard:
> rules=base
> model=empty
> layout=empty
> variant=
> options=
>
>
> $ setxkbmap -print
> xkb_keymap {
> xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
> xkb_types     { include "complete" };
> xkb_compat    { include "complete" };
> xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us" };
> xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)" };
> };
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>> From a session that doesn't work (tcsh):
>
> ~/.x2go/session.log says "keyboard file not created: Is a directory"
> ~/.x2go/keyboard file missing
>
> % setxkbmap -print
> xkb_keymap {
> xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
> xkb_types     { include "complete" };
> xkb_compat    { include "complete" };
> xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us" };
> xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)" };
> };
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