[X2Go-User] x2go over wayland now working?

[Ulrich Sibiller]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 3:40 PM Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Spoke too soon.  This is driving me nuts.  There seems to be no way to get
> my remapping of caps lock as ctrl to work (although it worked once!).
>
> I've tried a bunch of remote desktops: mate, xfce, lxqt.  I've tried setting
> on x2go client I/O to configure keyboard, don't configure keyboard, auto-
> detect.  I've tried in the x2go session various ways to configure the
> keyboard.  The best I can manage is that caps lock does nothing (the worst I
> can get is caps lock is stuck on and can't be turned off).

I have just checked, that works for me without wayland being involved)
I have checked with xfce. x2go had the "determine keyboard
automatically" setting.

> I'm baffled.  I'm not an X expert, but if I run xev within the x2go session
> and hit capslock I see something about a keysym "capslock".  So the concept
> of capslock is being propagated to the remote session.  But I can't seem to
> remap it to do anything (like ctrl as I want) either through any gui
> keyboard config, or using setxkbmap.
>
> The current setxkbmap state is (as told by the remote session)
> setxkbmap -query
> rules:      evdev
> model:      pc105
> layout:     us
> options:    ctrl:nocaps,caps:ctrl_modifier

which looks correct.

> > run
> > with Capslock remapped to Ctrl.  Now running on wayland, I set x2go client
> > to "do not configure keyboard".  When I reconnect to my session (running
> > mate), in settings it has layout
> > (system/preferences/hardware/keyboard/layout/options) set 'ctrl position:
> > caps lock as ctrl'.  I have to turn this off.  Now caps lock is working as
> > ctrl as I want.  But every time I reconnect I have to go through this
> > setting, otherwise caps lock is not acting as ctrl, it's acting as caps
> > lock.

That is clearly a mate issue. Destop Enviroments should be configured
to not change the keyboard at all. Maybe you can try with a new user
and see if it also happens in the default. I had sessions where it
worked. But once you changed anything in the keyboard settings via the
DE's system settings you could never go back to the default as this
could not be enterd into the dialogs. So try with a fresh clean
profile.

Uli