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After connecting from my Android devices to a NoMachine server running under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I always have a very “special” keyboard layout.
E. g. every slash ‘/’ is transmitted as an ampersand ‘&’.
Windows clients connecting to the same server work correctly.
Some time (or Android Updates) ago, the Android clients did not have this problem.
Any help?
Hi. Could you confirm the keyboard layout on Android is the same one of the remote desktop (Ubuntu)? Some versions ago we did a major rework of keyboards in order to improve multiple languages support, but using the same layout on client and server is mandatory to have a correct symbol translation.
Keyboard layouts on Ubuntu and on Android are both US.
On Android I tried several alternative keyboards including a bluetooth HW keyboard, but with no effect on the behavior.
Could you give details about your device? Model, OS (stock Android, custom ROM, etc), Kernel version, keyboard app in use (stock or custom app).
Thanks.1st device:
Samsung Galasy Note 4 (SM-N910F), stock Android 6.0.1, Keyboard App: Hacker’s Keyboard
2nd device:
Huawei M2-A01L, stock Android 5.1.1, stock keyboard
Keyboard (mis)behavior on both devices is identical.
Some Android versions have troubles to report the correct keyboard layout to apps, by giving instead the OS language/locale. Are your devices configured to use English (US) language?
As a test, could you please try to set german keyboard on Ubuntu, by leaving English US layout on Android?
I have changed to German keyboard layout on Ubuntu, but: same behavior as before: key left of right shift results in ‘&’ instead of US ‘/’ or German dash.
I do not know exactly since when the behavior changed, but I am quite sure the Android keyboards worked correctly until May 2018.
The symbol ‘/’ is translated to ‘&’ when selected maps are DE and US. Could you please verify again if the DE layout is being used on Ubuntu, for example with the ‘setxkbmap -query’ command?
$ setxkbmap -query
rules: evdev
model: pc105
layout: de,us,us
variant: ,intl,With these settings, my “Hacker’s keyboard” on Android now works as expected, even with US layout there.
However, when I connect with a Windows NoMachine client now, the keyboard layout is always German independent of the Windows keyboard settings. So I always have to enter ‘setxkbmap us intl’ to get my preferred US international keyboard.
Hi. Small update just to notify that we’re tracking this problem with the following Trouble Report:
https://www.nomachine.com/TR02Q09131
You could subscribe to be notified when it’ll be released.
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