RE: font and keyboard problems

[Otto Klingesberger <ok@xxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben McKeegan [mailto:brsm2@cus.cam.ac.uk]On Behalf Of 
Ben McKeegan
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 5:58 PM
> 
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Otto Klingesberger wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > i have started testing rdesktop today, but i have two seroius
> > problems:
> > 
> > 1) Text ist sometimes drawn with mirrored fonts but after
> > a refresh, the drawing is correct.
> 
> I think I've seen this happen on a FreeBSD box using eXceed as an X
> server, but not on a Linux box using XFree86, so it may be platform
> specific.  What OS and X server are you using?
> 

I've made the initial tests with a linux box and Reflection-x on my pc.
After switching to native XFree on linux the problem with mirrored fonts
has gone.

> > 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 ?
> 
> 
> The keyboard codes are all listed in the registry on the NT terminal
> server:  look under
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Keyboard Layouts
> using regedit.  It looks like German is 0x407
>

Code 407 now works well with all the special characters like umlaut.
 
> The keyboard support in the distributed version is rather 
> lacking - non
> of the extended keys work and the caps lock / num lock don't 
> always work
> properly.  I submitted a patch to this mailing list a couple 
> of days ago
> to fix this.  Since I don't think this list is archived anywhere I am
> attaching it again.  This should hopefully make your whole 
> keyboard work,
> including the windows key and menu key!  If you find this 
> makes your caps
> lock and num lock keys work incorrectly then let me know and 
> I'll send you
> a slightly different patch that I have.
>

I've tested both patches from your homepage.
The Win- and Menu Key work well, but pressing Num- or Caps lock has
no effect. I also noticed, that the combination of SHIFT and Cursor 
(e.g. Marking for COPY&PASTE) does not work.

-- snip --
 
> Regards,
> Ben.

The patch for the cursor-handling seems to work perfect for me.

I think, that the distribution and the patches are a quite good work and
i'm looking forward on using rdesktop with Win2000 and a 24bit X-Server.
Thanks for your effort.


Regards,
OK.