Keyboard layout wrong for client Windows 7 and server OpenSUSE 42.1

[roell.f]

Dear forum,

I freshly setup:

a) a linux pc with

• os: OpenSUSE 42.1
• language: German
• keyboard layout: DE
• variant: nodeadkeys
• model: pc105
• nx app: nomachine_5.1.54_1_x86_64.rpm
• role: nx-server

b) a ms Windows PC with

• os: Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit
• language: German
• keyboard layout: DE
• variant: nodeadkeys
• model: pc105
• nx app: nomachine_5.1.54_1.exe
• role: nx-client

both hosts are working fine (i.e. with active keyboard mapping = german) when operated locally.

after connecting the client to the display manager of server i found the active keyboard mapping to be “us english”. next I proceeded to log in. the keyboard mapping is still “us english”.

I executed:

setxkbmap -print -verbose 10

result (a):

Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev…
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev…
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     de
variant:    nodeadkeys
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwertz)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+de(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)+
terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes  { include “evdev+aliases(qwertz)” };
xkb_types     { include “complete”      };
xkb_compat    { include “complete”      };
xkb_symbols   { include “pc+de(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)+
terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)+
terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)”       };
xkb_geometry  { include “pc(pc105)”     };
};

I executed:

setxkbmap -layout de -variant nodeadkeys
# and again
setxkbmap -print -verbose 10

result (b):

same as result (a), see above.

but now the active keyboard layout is “german”, i.e. keyboard input is
processed correctly.

to add “setxkbmap -layout de” to bashrc is not a solution, because the
first login on the display manager isn’t affected.

so i tried to change the file

%Program Files%\NX Client for Windows\share\keyboards

as described in https://www.nomachine.com/AR01F00500 according to

diff keyboards keyboards,original

31,32c31,32
< de_DE,0x0407,German (Germany)
< de_DE,0xf012,German (IBM)
—
> de,0x0407,German (Germany)
> de,0xf012,German (IBM)

after rebooting the nx-server and restarting th nx-client-app the problem still exists.

what can I do?

best regards

frank

[graywolf]

Please change /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg to have SessionLogClean 0.

Then replicate the problem and issue setxkbmap -print again.

Check also output from commands:

echo $DISPLAY

xprop -root | grep XKB

Send content of /usr/NX/var/log to us (you can mail to forum (at) nomachine (dot) com).

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