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ingemaradahl / remote-input

Simple tool for forwarding mouse and keyboard input over a TCP connection
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Wrong keyboard mapping #4

Closed Fabus1184 closed 3 years ago

Fabus1184 commented 3 years ago

I'm using german keymap (QWERTZ) and regardless of the keymap settings at client or server the keymap is always wrong, z and y are switched and I cant write most special characters even not when pressing the key that would correspond to the character in american layout. Also the super key is not working, but that might be an issue with ksuperkey idk.

ingemaradahl commented 3 years ago

Yeah, I use dvorak which becomes interesting when I use this tool to forward my local X11 input to another computer which also runs a X11 server with the same keymap: When I press S the dvorak layout maps this to the O key which is picked up by the forward-input application and sent to the receiving end, which in turn is pressed again as O on the virtual keyboard. This is translated to R by the dvorak keymap. So If I press O I get R which is super confusing :slightly_smiling_face:. Essentially you get a on-the-fly substitution cipher.

However I've used this as a feature, since I get dvorak when I forward my input to machines with a standard US QWERTY keyboard layout. Quirky but it works. But also a bit crazy.

I guess it makes sense to be able to choose if you want to forward the X11 keyboard presses or the "actual" key presses. A sensible default would probably be to forward the same key as you pressed on the keyboard regardless of what your X11 mapping is..