Re: font and keyboard problems

[Matt Chapman <matthewc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:58:21PM +0000, Ben McKeegan wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Otto Klingesberger wrote:
> 
> > 1) Text ist sometimes drawn with mirrored fonts but after
> > a refresh, the drawing is correct.

This is a known problem, which I've hopefully fixed now.
The code made assumptions as to the X Server's default bit
and byte endianness.

> > 2) Keyboard input does not work. 
> > I saw the commandline parameter 
> >  -k: keyboard layout (hex) which is set to 0x409 in the
> > source code.
> > I dont think that the layout code ist the matter, because also
> > the keys, which are similar on german and us keyboards,
> > do not work. btw:what is the code for a german keyboard ?

This is also a known problem. The scancodes returned by X are, with
some keyboards, somewhat different from what Windows expects (even
trying different keyboard layouts), so rdesktop will probably need
to do some more intelligent mapping. Tim Edmonds pointed to the WINE
and his vdesktop code for guidance, so I'll have a look at that.

> I've not yet seen any traffic on this list from the author.  Does anybody
> know if he is still developing or otherwise engaged?  It would be usefull
> to have this list and any patches submitted to archived on the web site. 

I'm watching this list but it's a very busy time of year for me
so I'm behind as far as integrating the patches goes. Thanks, Ben,
for your keyboard patch. Ultimately we'll need to do more to
make it work on on a wider variety of keyboards, but the extended
keycode flag is something that I didn't know about and no doubt
something that will come in useful.

Indeed I've finally got around to setting up an archive of this
mailing list. It's linked from the main page; the direct URL is:

http://www.rdesktop.org/archive/

Cheers,

	Matt