Add support for switching input method

[FengZhongShaoNian]

I'm using the Chinese version of windows 10 , which uses the system's built-in pinyin input method. I use ./bin/winapps manual Notepad.exe to open notepad. I want to input some Chinese in Notepad, but I can't switch to the Chinese input method.

Technical details:

Host OS: Manjaro Linux with KDE plasma 5.27.8 Winapps: Latest git. FreeRDP packages: freerdp 2:2.11.1-1 Arch: amd64. Guest OS: Windows 10 PRO 22H2（Chinese Version）.

Input method on Linux: fcitx5-rime Please let me know if you need any more information. If there is some configuration I can do on my end to get this working properly, also please let me know.

Thank you and congratulations for this awesome project!

[oskardotglobal]

Have you tried connecting to the VM normally via RDP and changing the Keyboard layout in windows? Otherwise, maybe you'll find something useful here: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/8980

[FengZhongShaoNian]

As you can see above, I have two keyboard layouts on my windows, and I tried to remove the English one. Now after opening notepad by ./bin/winapps manual Notepad.exe, I can see the candidate word panel of the Chinese Pinyin input method, but it flashed away during the input process (as shown below), so I still can't enter Chinese normally.

[LDprg]

Is your System layout also Chinese? Maybe thats a problem.

[ctrngk]

Do not use any default input method offered by windows. Use 3rd party software like baidu, which includes a feature to trigger the input method by customizing your own shortcut.

[jrevillard]

Hello,

I have the exact same problem with the French Keyboard. Since the migration to Docker Windows image, I don't know exactly why but it seems that the US keyboard cannot be removed.... When I start any application, this is always the one selected. I tried so many things to remove this keyboard layout or to ask FreeRDP to use the French Keyboard that I don't know what to do anymore.....

Best, Jerome

[LDprg]

@jrevillard did you change the localisation using docker enviroment flags documented in https://github.com/dockur/windows ?

[jrevillard]

@jrevillard did you change the localisation using docker enviroment flags documented in https://github.com/dockur/windows ?

Yes I did, and actually, I think this is a pur Windows issue so I opened an issue here: https://github.com/dockur/windows/issues/551

Best, Jerome

[LDprg]

@jrevillard I agree with the response from the windows docker repo. It seems like freerdp bug. Maybe you want to report it there and link the issue here?

[jrevillard]

Perhaps this one : https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/9678 ?

[LDprg]

@jrevillard can you add /kdb: to your freerdp extra flags in the win apps conf. Or try calling freerdp with the flag manually.

The issue you mentioned seems not to be related.

[jrevillard]

I did already tested xfreerdp3 /kbd:lang:0x040c..., xfreerdp3 /kbd:layout:French,lang:0x040c.... Nothing helped.

[LDprg]

@jrevillard I think you should open a issue on the freerdp repo. This seems to me like a bug in freerdp.

Also are you using x11 or wayland? Wayland causes a lot of strange issues and is not supported.

[oskardotglobal]

@jrevillard We can include the reg file from dockur/windows#551 in the VM by default if you had good results with that

[jrevillard]

This solved my issue indeed but I don't know if it's a good idea to integrate such specific thing. I guess it could break something for other people...

[eylenburg]

Just wanted to add that the registry method mentioned above (adding [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayout"=dword:00000001) works - as long as the VM itself has the right keyboard layout in the settings - while the FreeRDP setting (in my case adding RDP_FLAGS="/kbd:0x00000452" to winapps.conf) doesn't as it somehow prevents the Windows app from starting.

This should either be fixed upstream in freerdp or mentioned in the Winapps documentation somewhere.

[acrilique]

I've had this problem and solved it by: Running this command to know the hex code for my desired keyboard layout:

xfreerdp /list:kbd

Then opening my configuration file located in ~/.config/winapps/winapps.conf and adding:

RDP_FLAGS="/kbd:layout:0x00000450"