[ubuntu] tsclient / rdesktop - caps lock inop

[toyoder]

The caps lock key doesn't work or 'flow thru' to the terminal session.
(If the user holds the shift key caps will type thru to the terminal session.)

Within tsclient on the 'local resources' tab I selected the keyboard language
to "en-us" and I've tried enabling the "window manager's key bindings"
option under the tsclient performance tab without any noticeable benefit.

Is there a setting within tsclient, rdesktop or Gnome that will enable the
caps lock functionality?

[jimv]

Try the gnome-rdp client instead. It's so much faster than the one that comes with Ubuntu...and your capslock might work too.

sudo apt-get install gnome-rdp

[toyoder]

Originally Posted by jimv Try the gnome-rdp client instead. It's so much faster than the one that comes with Ubuntu...and your capslock might work too. sudo apt-get install gnome-rdp

Thanks for the suggestion...

Sadly I must report Gnome-RDP suffers the same trouble as tsclient(as does grdesktop too). Caps lock setting dose not pass thru to the terminal server session.

Where oh where is this hidden bit found?

[apedraza]

It is a regression since it used to work in Hardy.

[toyoder]

Originally Posted by apedraza It is a regression since it used to work in Hardy.

That being the case, with whom or where should I file the bug report?

[dmsimms]

Originally Posted by apedraza It is a regression since it used to work in Hardy.

I'm having the same problem; caps lock isn't "detected" when I remote desktop (using tsclient) into a Windows 2003 machine (haven't tried other versions of Windows). Shift seems to work fine. This was working for months in Ubuntu 8.04, and stopped working when I upgraded to 8.10.

[paulie420]

same ISSUE thou i did find a work around, BUT IT does screw things up a bit in ubuntu, thou it does allow the caps lock to function normal in terminal services, the num pad unfortunately does not work thou. here IS what i did>

SYSTEM> preferances > keyboard > click on the LAYOUTS tab, select "OTHER OPTIONS..."

find caps lock behavior and expand the options, select CAPSLOCK TOGGLES SHIFT SO ALL KEYS ARE AFFECTED."

like i said, ALL SEEMS NORMAL in rdesktop (terminal services) but, UBUNTU, ACTS A LITTLE CRAZY SINCE IT THINKS YOUR HOLDING THE SHIFT KEY, when you attempt to move a window with capslock off in ubuntu< it moves very erratically -, but terminal services does not think the same thing, i HOPe they come out with a fix for this one, I use rdesktop religiously since everything at work is operated by microsoft products.

PAUL

ps (this is occurring after the upgrade from 8.04 TO 8.10) and this is the message that keeps occurring in the terminal window i start rdesktop in;

"WARNING: No translation for (keysym 0xffe6, Shift_Lock)" & "WARNING: No translation for (keysym 0xfef9, Pointer_EnableKeys)" thou i think the last error has to do with numpad not working in rdesktop using the temporary fix i put in place. i will try to keep up today with the issues and fixes i find.

[PascalNobus]

Try hitting [Ctrl][Shift][NumLock] at the same time,
or [Shift][Numeric 7]

[kribba]

I've got the same problem when I upgraded to 8.10. But after I removed the rdesktop package using synaptic and downloaded the .deb package from the Hardy release (v 1.5.0 something) and installed, I now got the caps lock to work properly in krdc since it depends on rdesktop as many other clients do.

I just hope no other issue shows up using this combination...

[sql]

while using rdesktop try

rdesktop -k common ...

instead of

rdesktop -k en-us...

may be it help.

all variants of key "-k" are names of files in folder /usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/

at least in Fedora Core