NumLock state turned off when remote keyboard in use

[Alkaris]

I want to disable the behaviour that turns off the NumLock when a keyboard from a remote machine is in use by a connected client. This is particularly annoying when connecting from a client that uses On Screen Keyboard in order to use the keyboard, but when the keyboard is in use it automatically disables NumLock state on the server machine once a key press has been received for input.

Case scenario:

Client A is connected to Server Host, Client A is an Android device that uses On Screen Keyboard to send inputs to the Host machine. Host machine then disables NumLock state when Client A begins typing. Client A does not have a key to Enable or Disable NumLock state for the On Screen Keyboard. The NumLock state is triggered by the sync keyboard states how it handles CapsLock, ScrollLock, etc…

I should be able to stop a connected client from turning off NumLock state on the host machine whenever the On Screen Keyboard is being used to type on the remote device.

[Britgirl]

Hi, this is  the expected behaviour. We will evaluate how to improve this behaviour, so that the status of numlock on server is not forcibly off. Just so we understand your use case correctly, are there two users involved in this scenario? One connecting and one already on the desktop locally?

[Alkaris]

I manage my own machines both locally and remote, so it’s annoying by the fact that after I’ve used remote and come back to local later that the NumLock key has to be toggled again.

[Britgirl]

Understood. Thanks for the feedback, we will evaluate how to improve this behaviour.

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