[rdesktop-devel] rdesktop X keyboard mapping

[cmars <cm...@zi...>]

What is the status of keyboard mapping on non-PC systems?  I want to use Sun type 4, 5, and 6 keyboards with rdesktop, and also HP-UX.  The HP-UX system uses a USB keyboard, but the key mappings on all of the above are scrambled when I open an rdesktop session.

I have been digging thru the past archives, finding different workaround solutions to this problem (keycodes, patches to rdesktop, etc.).  What is the current best solution for non-PC keyboard support?  If it is a patch to the sources, where can I download it?

It seems to me (and this might be extremely naive) that X11 somehow maps all these different keys to a common mapping in X11.  For example, if I press Ctrl or Alt on a Sun workstation, a remote app on a Linux PC reads the key correctly.  And the reverse is true, a Linux PC maps its keys correctly to a Sun app (well, maybe not all the Sun keys, but at least the important ones).  So, this common X11 mapping ought to be able to be mapped to the Microsoft PC key bindings, right?  You might need one per locale,  but all UNIX platforms should use this common X11 keyboard interface.  What am I missing?

Casey