Automatically change keyboard layout

[quicksilver03]

Hello,

I’m using NX 5.1.7 to connect from a CentOS 7.2 laptop with a French keyboard to a CentOS 7.2 server with an Italian keyboard attached to it. Since I’m the only one connecting to this server, I would like to get the French keyboard layout for the duration of the NX session.

I have modified /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg to configure 2 user scripts to automatically change the keyboard layout as such:

UserScriptAfterSessionStart "/etc/NX/scripts/sessionstart.sh"
UserScriptAfterSessionDisconnect "/etc/NX/scripts/sessionend.sh"
UserScriptAfterSessionClose "/etc/NX/scripts/sessionend.sh"
UserScriptAfterSessionFailure "/etc/NX/scripts/sessionend.sh"

where the scripts are

sessionstart.sh

#!/bin/sh
setxkbmap fr
exit 0

sessionend.sh

#!/bin/sh
setxkbmap it
exit 0

However, when I log in I still get the Italian keyboard layout: my script is either not called or if it’s called then it doesn’t affect my NX session.

Any suggestion to make this work?

Thanks in advance

[Britgirl]

Looking at the script, there’s an error.

#!/bin/sh
setxkbmap fr
exit 0

 

It should look like:
#!/bin/sh
XAUTHORITY=/home/$2/.Xauthority /usr/bin/setxkbmap fr -display :0

 

setxkmbap needs to know which display has to be used and where the cookie is available, so every custom script you prepare with setxkbmap will require XAUTHORITY and -display.

It might be a good idea to also enable the error logs from scripts and setxkbmap just in case:

Add this to the beginning of the scripts ‘exec >> /usr/NX/var/log/custom.log 2>&1’

[quicksilver03]

Thank you so much for your help, with your additions the 2 scripts work perfectly and I get the keyboard layouts I need!

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