Re: Remote keystrokes garbled
Re: Remote keystrokes garbled
- Subject: Re: Remote keystrokes garbled
- From: Nathan <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:15:59 -0600
In our experience with using XDMCP to connect to various gnome
desktops from OS X clients, we've needed to add an invalid keyboard
layout on gnome (ironically) to get it to default to a sane keyboard
layout.
Applications->System Tools->Configuration Editor
desktop->gnome->peripherals->keyboard-kbd
Layouts = [whateverjunk]
Good luck!
~ Nathan
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:09 PM, David Abrahams <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Doug Carter wrote:
>
>>
>>> One problem I've been having repeatedly with X11 on the mac is that if I
>>> do
>>>
>>> ssh -X myhost gdmflexiserver --xnest
>>>
>>> When the remote login window comes up (as presented by Xephyr), the keys
>>> on my keyboard produce, in some cases nothing, and in others, the wrong
>>> character. So I can't log in. On the other hand, if I
>>>
>>> ssh -X myhost
>>>
>>> and then:
>>>
>>> gdmflexiserver --xnest
>>>
>>> Everything works. Any clues?
>>
>> This sounds like an environment problem. When you run:
>>
>> ssh -X myhost
>>
>> You are starting up a shell on "myhost" and sourcing any login settings
>> that are located in the .bash_profile or .profile file.
>>
>> Running:
>>
>> ssh -X myhost gdmflexiserver --xnest
>>
>> Bypasses the setting of any login environment settings.
>>
>> I don't have gdmflexiserver, so I can't test this, but there are several
>> ways to source the remote environment, but you might try something like:
>>
>> ssh -t -X myhost gdmflexiserver --xnest
>>
>> Or:
>>
>> ssh -t -X myhost "bash -l -c \"gdmflexiserver --xnest\" "
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, Doug, but neither of those lines causes any
> change. Other ideas? FWIW,
>
> * the remote machine is running OpenSolaris 0906.
> * I don't have this problem when the local machine is running Linux
>
> --
> David Abrahams
> BoostPro Computing
> http://boostpro.com
>
>
>
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