Using NoMachine with a custom keyboard layout

[sygi]

I have a custom keyboard layout stored in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/sygi (both on the server and the local machine, which both are physical Linux machines). When using either of these machines, I can change the keyboard layout via setxkbmap sygi.

When connecting with NoMachine (7.9.2) (with ssh authentication), I am able to change layout to the standard ones (eg. setxkbmap fr), but when running setxkbmap sygi -v -v -v -v, I get:

`
Setting verbose level to 8
Setting verbose level to 9
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout
Using command line, ignoring X server
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:      evdev
layout:     sygi
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+sygi+inet(evdev)
geometry:   pc(pc104)
Error loading new keyboard description
`

Any idea what I could try? I made sure that the layout file is present when connecting through NX.

[fra81]

Hi,

NoMachine doesn’t load the keymaps from the system path (/usr/share/X11/xkb), but it ships its own keyboard config files in /usr/NX/share/X11/xkb. You can try to add the layout file there.

[sygi]

This works, thanks a lot!

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