[X2Go-User] x2go over wayland now working?

[Neal Becker]

OK, tried with a new user profile.  Tried a number of times, deleting and
re-creating the user between attempts.
There doesn't seem to be any way to get this working on wayland.
Went back to X11 on the client and it's working fine.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:20 AM Ulrich Sibiller <uli42 at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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
>


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