Mouse and keyboard not working when connecting from windows to ubuntu

[morshedi]

Dear all,

I have installed NoMachine on my Windows 8.1 and I’m connecting to Ubuntu 16.04. I can see the screen of my Linux machine, but when I click in the window or use the keyboard, nothing happens!! Could you please help me figure this out?

Thanks

[graywolf]

Have you got the chance of launching xev tool on the Ubuntu desktop to check that input events are forwarded?

[morshedi]

Thanks for the response.

I have not launched xev tool. Could you please explain further what I should do

 

[graywolf]

This is possible if you have access to the server machine: open a terminal window and type

xev

It is possible xev is not installed, in that case install with

sudo apt-get install x11-utils

After you launched xev, a small window shows up and input events are recorded in the terminal window.

Leave xev running, don’t close that window.

When you connect to Ubuntu from remote, xev will print mouse/keyboard events in the terminal. Or nothing if no input event is forwarded.

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