Comment 74 for bug 251709

Robert,

All of the people who have tested it have said that my patch and build
in my ppa has fixed their problem. I also have not heard any reports
of causing any regressions for anyone. Perhaps it would be worth
incorporating that patch into maverick?

Manny

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Robert Ancell
<email address hidden> wrote:
> I've removed the raw keyboard patch from Maverick due to the number of
> reports that it breaks non-raw mode and the sourceforce/debian versions
> do not. I understand that without this patch some keyboard layouts may
> experience problems - in this case please try remmina (available in the
> software centre) as this uses an updated version of rdesktop that has
> improved keyboard support.
>
> --
> 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.
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