From: Casey A. S. <cs...@se...> - 2003-05-12 07:42:47
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Hmm, well that makes sense. So from what I understand, this is what happens: * Physical keyboard sends signals to the physical terminal. * The operating system translates these into scancodes or maybe the = keyboard just sends them directly. * xkb translates scancodes into keysyms (whatever those are). * rdesktop client translates keysyms into PC scancodes. * Windows recieves PC scancodes which override any Windows keyboard = layout setting. The problem with this model is that you then cannot write an rdesktop = layout for any single keyboard layout. Instead, you have to write an rdesktop layout for any keyboard layout = and any possible xkb layout (in my case, pcqwerty-->pcdvorak and pcdvorak-->pcdvorak). But when I want to run rdesktop on linux/sparc, = I suppose I'll then need to write an rdesktop layout for = sundvorak-->pcdvorak, or if I should happen to want to use it within X11/qwerty on = linux/sparc, I'll then need to write a sunqwerty-->pcdvorak, or if there's a qwerty = Sun user, then I'll additionally need to write a sunqwerty-->pcqwerty? This just seems like a lot of unecessary work... - Casey > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Chapman [mailto:mat...@cs...] > Sent: 12. ma=ED 2003 06:36 > To: Casey Allen Shobe > Cc: rde...@li... > Subject: Re: [rdesktop-devel] Keymaps >=20 >=20 > The keymaps aren't used to convert scancodes to keysyms - X=20 > does that - > but to convert the keysyms back into PC scancodes to send to=20 > the Terminal > Server. If we were to rely on the original scancodes, then rdesktop > wouldn't work with non-PC keyboards (1.1.0 didn't). >=20 > Matt >=20 >=20 > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 02:21:15AM -0400, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, > >=20 > > Why is it that rdesktop has it's own keymaps and can't use=20 > your keyboard as > > defined by X11 like every other X application I've used? > >=20 > > - Casey > >=20 > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Arend van Beelen jr. [mailto:ar...@au...] > > > Sent: 11. ma? 2003 18:16 > > > To: rde...@li... > > > Subject: [rdesktop-devel] Keymaps > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > Hi! > > >=20 > > > I am creating a configuration dialog for KRDC (KDE Remote Desktop = > > > Client), which uses rdesktop as well to connect to RDP=20 > > > servers and I was=20 > > > wondering about a few keymaps to which language they belong: > > >=20 > > > da > > > ja > > > pt-br > > > sl > > > sv > > >=20 > > > My guesses about these were: Danish, Japanese, Portugese=20 > > > (some variant),=20 > > > Slovenian and Slovak. Can anyone confirm these or does=20 > > > anybody know the=20 > > > correct languages? > > >=20 > > > Thanks, > > >=20 > > > Arend jr. > > >=20 > > >=20 > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003,=20 > Santa Clara > > > The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux=20 > > > enterprise solutions > > > www.enterpriselinuxforum.com > > >=20 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > rdesktop-devel mailing list > > > rde...@li... > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdesktop-devel > > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003,=20 > Santa Clara > > The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux=20 > enterprise solutions > > www.enterpriselinuxforum.com > >=20 > > _______________________________________________ > > rdesktop-devel mailing list > > rde...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdesktop-devel >=20 |