Remmina: Keyboard layouts between Linux and Windows in RDP

nabbisen - May 30 '21 - - Dev Community

I use Linux desktop as my workstation, whose keyboard layout is general "jp".
I had to connect to a Windows machine with Remmina, one of remote desktop clients, the other day. Additionally, I had to connect to CentOS servers via SSH, whose locale is "C", inside it.
What happened then? I pushed : in my keyboard and ' appeared in the screen, for example. It made me puzzled, when using Vim, etc🤕
It seemed caused by the difference of keyboard layouts between the Linux machines bridged by the Windows machine.
I found the solution finally. It was easy operation to configure Remmina.
Open its "Preferences":

remmina-preferences

Then, activate "Use client keyboard mapping":

remmina-preferences-rdp

It made my work more comfortable🙂

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