Completely wrong keyboard mapping

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  • #6491
    dsla
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    Hi all

    I’m trying to get the free client/server working but I’m getting nonsense keyboard mapping: typing “qwerty” in the client results in “789-=[” appearing.

    Seems to be the same as this problem http://superuser.com/questions/722653/nomachine-keyboard-mapping-way-off

    The server is from nomachine_4.4.12_11_amd64.deb installed on a Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS headless VM with lxde/openbox (64bit).

    The client is from nomachine_4.4.12_12_i386.deb installed on Debian 7.8 (wheezy) with openbox (actually Crunchbang Waldorf 32bit).

    Other than this strange keyboard mapping, all seems OK (if unusable). Any ideas please?

    Dan

    #6496
    graywolf
    Participant

    Could you run these commands on client and server:

    xmodmap -pke > xmodmap.out

    xkbcomp -xkb $DISPLAY xkbcomp.out

    xprop -root | grep XKB > xprop.out

    and provide files xmodmap.out xkbcomp.out xprop.out ?

    #6667
    Vinny Cree
    Participant

    I’m having same problem but my client is in Windows. So I cannot run xmodmap and other commands on Windows enviorment. Do you have any suggestions? @graywolf

    #6670
    xscribblesx
    Participant

    I’m having the same error.  I only got this error after upgrading NoMachine after updating my mac to Yosemite…

     

    #6681
    graywolf
    Participant

    @xcribblesx : I guess you got it from client side. Nothing abnormal in those reports, by the way.

    I’d like to look at file under /usr/NX/var/log and $HOME/.nx directories, from client and server.

    Here you find detailed instruction for creating archives from those dirs:

    https://www.nomachine.com/AR07K00677

    It would be also interesting to know the keycodes reported by xev tool for the troublesome keys.

    #6755
    eitak
    Participant

    Hi,

    I am getting the same problem – the keyboard on NoMachine is completely unusable due to the mapping being screwed up. I am running Yosemite on my laptop and using NoMachine 4.4.12 to log onto a computer that runs KDE. This is not the case when I use NoMachine on my old laptop that runs mountain lion – the NoMachine gives me the correct mapping and everything works. Is there a work around for this yet?

    Thanks!

    #6761
    graywolf
    Participant

    @eitak

    Please confirm you are trying to access an existing KDE desktop running on the physical display of your Linux server.

    In that case, I need you log in to your server using ssh, with the same user owing the KDE session.

    Then run the following commands:

    DISPLAY=:0 (assuming your physical desktop is using display :0)

    export DISPLAY

    xmodmap -pke > xmodmap.out

    xkbcomp -xkb $DISPLAY xkbcomp.out

    xprop -root | grep XKB > xprop.out

     

    Also this would be useful:xev > xev.log

    and try to press the “qwerty” keys in the test window that will pop up in the remote desktop.

    Let me have a look of the .log files.

     

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