Running rdesktop remotely thru a SSH connection [3]

When I try to run rdesktop (a linux terminal services client)
remotely from a linux machine through a SSH connection, the
keyboard emits the wrong keycodes a "9" outputs an "i" , etc -
like the keyboard rows are off by one. Works fine in the
xterm that I start rdesktop from....

Any ideas?

Rick Mills
rick@jpusa.org

We've tested rdesktop and regenerated the same result.
The problem occurs because the rdesktop hard-coded keycodes for specific keyboard types.

We're testing it for a better solution and will upload the result soon.

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Even I've been facing the same problem. Do you have a solution to it now?

The problem occurs because the rdesktop is using hard-coded keycodes of Linux.

You can solve it by installing the newest version (1.2.0) of rdesktop at:

http://www.rdesktop.org/#download

Installation instruction:

1. Download rdesktop-1.2.0.tar.gz into /tmp directory.
2. Do the following commands:
$ tar xvzf rdesktop-1.2.0.tar.gz
$ cd rdesktop-1.2.0
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
3. Remove old version.
$ mv /usr/bin/rdesktop /usr/bin/rdesktop.bak

The new version is installed in /usr/local/bin.

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