Ubuntu patch for rdesktop breaks keyboard handling.

rdesktop (1.6.0-3ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/02_raw_keyboard_support.patch:
    - Drop patch as it is causing a number of problems in non-raw mode
      (LP: #494311)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:53:46 +1000

Suggest setting priority even lower. Rdesktop w/out the raw patch does fix one problem, but it doesn't resolve all keyboard issues.

Remmina appears to be a much better solution for rdesktop client.

Thanks to Robert Ancell for pointing me to Remmina and thanks to Vic Lee & company for putting Remmina together.

The current Ubuntu Remmina uses rdesktop, but the keyboard appears to operate better.

The current development version uses FreeRDP and resolves all keyboard issues (for me).

For what it's worth, Remmina is a class act VNC, SSH & RDP client manager that does a very nice job for each.

shmengie:
    What other problems specifically are you having without the keyboard patch?
I've rebuilt this package for Lucid (1.6.0-3ubuntu2) without the raw_keyboard patch and it fixes all issues for me, before it was completely unusable to my organization.

Collin:
   I'm willing to help do whatever it takes to get this applied to Lucid, let me know.

 Tyler

I've rebuilt this package without the raw_keyboard patch and added it to my ppa for those who wish to test:
ppa:tgates81/packages

https://launchpad.net/~tgates81/+archive/packages

How's this doing in Maverick? Can we maybe get this pushed out to Lucid to?

What is the status on this for Lucid?

I did a quick test on Lucid and it appears pretty good, except I had to
use the -N to get the numlock to work, but with -N it worked well.

-Joe

On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 18:13 +0000, Tyler Gates wrote:
> What is the status on this for Lucid?
>

Odd, I didn't have a numlock issue. For what its worth here is the relevant section in my /usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/common

#
# Numpad
#
Num_Lock 0x45
KP_Divide 0xb5 localstate
KP_Multiply 0x37 localstate
KP_Subtract 0x4a localstate
KP_Add 0x4e localstate
KP_Enter 0x9c localstate

KP_Decimal 0x53 numlock
KP_Separator 0x53 numlock
KP_Delete 0x53

KP_0 0x52 numlock
KP_Insert 0x52 localstate

KP_1 0x4f numlock
KP_End 0x4f localstate

KP_2 0x50 numlock
KP_Down 0x50 localstate

KP_3 0x51 numlock
KP_Next 0x51 localstate

KP_4 0x4b numlock
KP_Left 0x4b localstate

KP_5 0x4c numlock
KP_Begin 0x4c localstate

KP_6 0x4d numlock
KP_Right 0x4d localstate

KP_7 0x47 numlock
KP_Home 0x47 localstate

KP_8 0x48 numlock
KP_Up 0x48 localstate

KP_9 0x49 numlock
KP_Prior 0x49 localstate

#
# Inhibited keys
#
Caps_Lock 0x0 inhibit
Multi_key 0x0 inhibit