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Keyboard Manager support through RDP #34785

Open Biggest-Byte opened 1 week ago

Biggest-Byte commented 1 week ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

In a remote desktop session (specifically Windows), the keys typed follow the layout from the remote desktop's settings. It would be helpful for the custom key mapping made with Keyboard Manager to carry over to the remote desktop.

Scenario when this would be used?

I use the Colemak keyboard layout. This is not a Windows default, so I had to download and install a custom layout file for it. When I use an RDP, this layout setting on my host machine does not carry over, so I still type in QWERTY. I do not have the permissions to download things to some of the RDPs I use, so I have to look at my keyboard whenever I type. If I was able to have my host machine layout set to QWERTY, but use Keyboard Manager to remap the keys to Colemak, and then have that remapping still apply across an RDP session, that would be incredibly helpful. I could also imagine this would be helpful for anyone using custom shortcuts and not specifically 1-1 key remapping.

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