Comment 33 for bug 251709

The patch didn't seem to fix the problem :(

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:19 PM, ktp420 <email address hidden> wrote:

> Here is PPA for Karmic package with the patch if anyone wants to use it
> since this bug is not going to be fix for two releases now...let see it
> is going to be three in six/seven more months.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~ddumont/+archive/ppa/
>
> --
> rdesktop works bad with several keyboard layouts
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251709
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> Status in NULL Project: Invalid
> Status in “rdesktop” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: rdesktop
>
> Many people have many errors while working with rdesktop on a remote host
> having two or more keyboard layouts.
> For example, russian letter 'Б' sometimes are recognized as if it was
> pressed with Alt.
> Sometimes it works fine, sometimes symbols "." and "," do not work
> properly.
>
> One man founded a solution (raw keyboard support), it deskribed here:
> http://habrahabr.ru/blog/ubuntu/45595.html
>
> Alt Linux maintainers added patch to rdesktop, it's located here:
> http://sisyphus.ru/srpm/Sisyphus/rdesktop/patches
>
> After patch is applied, it is possible to use option '-y' to use raw
> keyboards. After that all problems with two or more keyboard layouts go
> away.
>
> Please include this patch while building this package.
>