[X2Go-User] keyboard layout driving me insane

[richard lucassen]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:18:10 -0400
Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On client side, I have layout set to map caps lock to ctrl.  I need
> this also when using x2go!  But it seems hard to achieve.  In x2go, I
> try both 'autodetect keyboard' and 'don't configure keyboard'.  I try
> mate, xfce, lxde.  On the server side I would like to try also
> configure keyboard layout, but I don't find any good way to do it on
> those window managers. Unfortunately, neither KDE nor GNOME will work
> (both client and server are fedora 28).
> 
> Sometimes I seem to hit a combination that works, but then when if
> the connection is terminated and I try again, it's once again not
> preserving my key remapping.  This is driving me nuts!  Any
> recommendations?

See thread "client name" of a few weeks ago. The workaround Ulrich
Sibiller proposed at the end of the thread works like a charm.

Probably thia workaround works for you as well.

HTH,

R.

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