Keyboard mapping ================ This release of rdesktop uses a new, portable keyboard mapping implementation. It should hopefully work on all X11 systems. This new implementation only looks at X11 keysyms: Not on (nonportable) keycodes or modifier status. This means that rdesktop will obey your local keyboard configuration. For example, if you have swapped CapsLock and Control, rdesktop will use this mapping. XKB is currently not used. It seems like a good idea to me, but since some X servers (like Xvnc) does not support XKB, we still need to use the plain old interface as well, at least. There are still some small problems. * CapsLock: CapsLock changes are never sent to the RDP server. rdesktop does not know which keys that are modified by CapsLock and which are not. So, the CapsLock indicator in Wordpad etc will always be off. Composing/Multi_key is supported. For more information, see: MIT: $SRC/xc/nls/X11/locale/Compose/iso8859-1 XFree86: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/*/Compose Solaris' Openwin: /usr/openwin/include/X11/Suncompose.h /usr/openwin/lib/locale/*/Compose Irix6: compose(5) Keymap files ============ The names of the keymaps follows RFC1766. (You can find a translation from Windows keyboard layout numbers to keymap names by looking at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\MIME\Database\RFC1766 in the registry.) Contents of keymap files ======================== The keymaps are line based. There are four different types of lines: 1) include lines Syntax: include Example: include common 2) map lines Syntax: map Example: map 0x41d Map-lines specifies how the remote RDP server should interpret the sent scancodes. 3) Translation lines Syntax: [flags..] Example: onehalf 0x29 shift The scancode can be found in scancodes.h. Note: The scancode value for extended keys can be calculated by OR:ing with 0x80. Example: The Delete key have the scancode sequence 0xe0, 0x52. You can get the scancode value to put into the map file by running: python -c "print hex(0x80 | 0x52)" If flags are "altgr", "shift", the scancode sent for this keysym will be prefixed with AltGr, or Shift. If flags includes "addupper", a translation for this keysyms uppercase name will be added as well, in addition to the non-uppercase name. Example: x 2d addupper ...will add an translation for "X" automatically, just like if you would specify: X 2d shift If flags include "localstate", the modifier to send will be determined by the local modifier state. If flags is "inhibit", nothing will be sent to the server. If flags is "numlock", rdesktop will make sure that the remote NumLock state is on before generating the key event. Otherwise, it will make sure NumLock is off. 4) enable_compose If any line starts with the keyword "enable_compose", rdesktop will enable local Compose/Multi_key handling. Enabling this will often make it impossible to compose characters with dead keys (on the remote side). This is because when local compose support is enabled, dead keys will not be sent to the remote side. 5) sequence lines Syntax: sequence ... Examples: sequence eacute dead_acute e sequence F12 f o o at e x a m p l e period c o m Sequence lines allows you to specify that multiple scancodes should be sent to the RDP server, in response to one X11 keyboard event. Note: The sequence is sent at the X11 KeyPress event. Nothing is sent at KeyRelease. 6) keyboard_type lines Syntax: keyboard_type keyboard_type lines specifies the keyboard type. Default value is 0x4 (en-us 101/104 keys keyboard). 7) keyboard_subtype lines Syntax: keyboard_subtype keyboard_subtype lines specifies the keyboard subtype. Default value is 0x0 (en-us 101/104 keys keyboard). 8) keyboard_functionkeys lines Syntax: keyboard_functionkeys keyboard_functionkeys specifies the number of keyboard function keys. Default value is 0xc (12, for standard 101/104 keys keyboard). Suggested X11 keysym mapping on PCs =================================== Unfortunately, there is no standard for which keysyms a given key should generate. If you have a PC-keyboard with Windows keys, I suggest this mapping: Keyboard keys: CtrlLeft WinLeft AltLeft Space AltGr WinRight Menu CtrlRight ...should generate keysyms: Control_L Super_L Alt_L space Mode_switch Super_R Menu Control_R Additionally: Shift-Alt should produce Meta_L Shift-AltGr should produce Multi_Key. Use a modifier-map like this: shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x25) control Control_L (0x42), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 Mode_switch (0x71) mod4 Super_L (0x73), Super_R (0x74) mod5 Scroll_Lock (0x4e) Updating / writing keymap files =============================== When writing new or updating keymap files, please use comments and blanks, to increase readability. The "sv" keymap is a good template. When you need to add a translation to a keymap file, do: 1. Get the "key number" for this key, by looking at keynums.png. 2. Take a look at scancodes.h, and look for SCANCODE_KEY_. The scancode value is at the end of the line. If the line contains (SCANCODE_EXTENDED | 0xsomething), then you should OR 0x80 to this value. For example, you can do: python -c "print hex(0x80 | 0xsomething)" 3. Put the scancode (from step 2) and keysym name (found in the error message) into the keymap file. Special keys ============ * The combination Ctrl-Alt-Enter toggles between fullscreen and non-fullscreen mode. * Meta, Hyper and Super are treated as windows keys. RDP4 does not support the windows keys though, so if you are running RDP4, these keys will translate to Ctrl-Esc. Links ===== http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes.html Test cases ========== When changing the keyboard code, make sure all these tests in Notepad works: 1. Ctrl+f should bring up Find dialog, with CapsLock both on and off. 2. Ctrl+Shift+arrows should mark text, with CapsLock both on and off. 3. Test a sequence, like egrave. If you don't have this symbol in your keyboard layout, try something like: xmodmap -e "keycode 49 = egrave" 4. Test a char generated with AltGr, such as @ on a swedish keyboard. 5. Test Ctrl-Alt-Delete. 6. Ctrl-Alt-Enter should toggle fullscreen. 7. Test NumLock synchronization using the -N option. Excel is able to indicate the current NumLock state. Verify that the status is updated correctly on reconnects. 8. Test the Windows keys, standalone as well as in combination with, say, E. 9. Make sure the system menu (via Alt-space) cannot be accessed in single app mode. 10. Make sure keymaps can be loaded from ~/.rdesktop/keymaps, KEYMAP_PATH, $CWD/keymaps, and from an absolute path. 11. Press Shift, then press a key modified by shift, the release shift, then release the other key. Do this in a speedy fasion. Make sure the shift state is not stuck down. 12. Test all numpad keys, when not using the -N option. 13. Map a single, un-shifted key (such as F1) to XK_A: xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = A A" Perform in Notepad: * Write some text * Press F1 * Press b * Release b * Release F1 Verify that shift is not stuck down, by clicking on the text. 14. Use a keyboard layout where Meta_L can be generated with Shift_R + Alt_L. Then: * Start Notepad * Press Shift_R * Press Alt_L * Release Shift_R * Release Alt_L * Press "e" Verify that you get an "e" in Notepad, rather than start Windows Explorer.