Need new keyboard layout : Keyboard layout changes on client connection loss

[Chesters-CZ]

xrdp version

0.9.21.1

Detailed xrdp version, build options

root@CHESTERS-SERVER:/home/chesters# sudo xrdp --version
xrdp 0.9.21.1
  A Remote Desktop Protocol Server.
  Copyright (C) 2004-2020 Jay Sorg, Neutrino Labs, and all contributors.
  See https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp for more information.

  Configure options:
      --enable-ipv6
      --enable-jpeg
      --enable-fuse
      --enable-rfxcodec
      --enable-opus
      --enable-painter
      --enable-vsock
      --build=x86_64-linux-gnu
      --prefix=/usr
      --includedir=${prefix}/include
      --mandir=${prefix}/share/man
      --infodir=${prefix}/share/info
      --sysconfdir=/etc
      --localstatedir=/var
      --disable-silent-rules
      --libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
      --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
      --disable-maintainer-mode
      --disable-dependency-tracking
      --with-socketdir=/run/xrdp/sockdir
      build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu
      CFLAGS=-g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/build/xrdp-QTF2mN/xrdp-0.9.21.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security 
      LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--as-needed
      CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
      PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/xrdp-QTF2mN/xrdp-0.9.21.1/pkgconfig

  Compiled with OpenSSL 3.0.14 4 Jun 2024
root@CHESTERS-SERVER:/home/chesters# 

Operating system & version

Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

Installation method

dnf / apt / zypper / pkg / etc

Which backend do you use?

?

What desktop environment do you use?

GNOME

Environment xrdp running on

Dell PowerEdge R510 server with MGA G200eW WPCM450 GPU

What's your client?

Remote Desktop Connection (C:\WINDOWS\system32\mstsc.exe) running on a Windows 11 machine

Area(s) with issue?

Keyboard / Mouse

Steps to reproduce

1. Connect via Remote Desktop Connection:
   
2. Disconnect client from network
3. Reconnect client to network
4. Connect via Remote Desktop Connection again

✔️ Expected Behavior

Keyboard layout after step 1 should be the same as after step 4 (for me, Czech QWERTZ)

❌ Actual Behavior

The layout after step 1 is correct - Czech QWERTZ
The layout after step 4 is different - English QWERTY or some kind of cyrillic layout

Anything else?

Keyboard layout gets fixed after logging out and logging back in. The keyboard layout in the Gnome settings stays unchanged:

xrdp-sesman.log
xrdp.log
xorg.conf.txt
Github does not accept the .conf filetype, so I appended .txt.

[matt335672]

This seems to be down to the Czech keyboard layout not being supported.

The keyboard identifier for the Czech keyboard (from here) is 00000405. This can be seen from the xrdp.log log file which shows a fallback to the US keyboard:-

20241217-19:25:04] [INFO ] xrdp_load_keyboard_layout: Keyboard information sent by the RDP client, keyboard_type:[0x07], keyboard_subtype:[0x00], keylayout:[0x00000405]
. . .
[20241217-19:25:05] [WARN ] Cannot find keymap file /etc/xrdp/km-00000405.ini
[20241217-19:25:05] [WARN ] Cannot find keymap file /etc/xrdp/km-00000405.ini
[20241217-19:25:05] [INFO ] Loading keymap file /etc/xrdp/km-00000409.ini

We're no longer supporting xrdp v0.9.x apart from security fixes. However, I can put a patch together for you for v0.10.x, which would probably work for v0.9.x. Would you be interested in trying that?

[Chesters-CZ]

Sure, @matt335672, I'd be happy to ^^

[matt335672]

Thanks.

I'm looking at the Windows layout for the Czech keyboard (code 0405) here:-

https://www.kbdlayout.info/kbdcz

The GNOME layout from a screenshot is here:-

These look different to me (but I'm not a Czech speaker). Is this what you'd expect in moving from Windows to GNOME, or am I missing something?

[Chesters-CZ]

Yes, the Windows and Linux keyboard layouts are different. I don't know why that is, but it seems to be a Linux-wide difference not exclusive to GNOME. The Linux variant of the Czech layout is the same on Arch with Plasma and Debian without a GUI, too.

It's most likely just a difference for the sake of there being a difference. It doesn't really matter in day-to-day typing.

[matt335672]

I've got a PR #3358 out for V0.10 to add the Czech keyboard.

It won't go into the next v0.10.x release which is imminent, but it will go into the next release, whatever that is.

To use retro-fit this to v0.9.x

1. Get the keyboard file km-00000405.ini by using this command, and copy it to /etc/xrdp/:-

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/a6dbca20783dd46e8b5d8e1fdaf7b52c5647dce5/instfiles/km-00000405.ini

2. Edit /etc/xrdp/xrdp_keyboard.ini, and make the changes shown below:-

--- a/xrdp/xrdp_keyboard.ini
+++ b/xrdp/xrdp_keyboard.ini
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ layouts_map=default_layouts_map
 rdp_layout_us=0x00000409
 rdp_layout_us_dvorak=0x00010409
 rdp_layout_us_dvp=0x19360409
+rdp_layout_cz=0x00000405
 rdp_layout_dk=0x00000406
 rdp_layout_de=0x00000407
 rdp_layout_es=0x0000040A
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ rdp_layout_pt=0x00000816
 rdp_layout_us=us
 rdp_layout_us_dvorak=us(dvorak)
 rdp_layout_us_dvp=us(dvp)
+rdp_layout_cz=cz
 rdp_layout_dk=dk
 rdp_layout_de=de
 rdp_layout_es=es
@@ -127,6 +129,7 @@ layouts_map=default_layouts_map
 rdp_layout_us=us
 rdp_layout_us_dvorak=us(dvorak)
 rdp_layout_us_dvp=us(dvp)
+rdp_layout_cz=cz
 rdp_layout_dk=dk
 rdp_layout_de=de
 rdp_layout_es=es

In summary, all lines with a _dk have a line with a _cz added above them.

@Chesters-CZ - please try that and let us know how you get on.

[Chesters-CZ]

Thank you, this fixed the issue.
Merry Christmas :)

[matt335672]

Thanks @Chesters-CZ

I've changed the title of this issue so other people may be able to find it.