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Remmina: Keyboard layouts between Linux and Windows in RDP

I use Linux desktop as my workstation, whose keyboard layout is general "jp".
I had to connect to a Windows machine with Remmina, one of remote desktop clients, the other day. Additionally, I had to connect to CentOS servers via SSH, whose locale is "C", inside it.
What happened then? I pushed : in my keyboard and ' appeared in the screen, for example. It made me puzzled, when using Vim, etc🤕
It seemed caused by the difference of keyboard layouts between the Linux machines bridged by the Windows machine.
I found the solution finally. It was easy operation to configure Remmina.
Open its "Preferences":

remmina-preferences

Then, activate "Use client keyboard mapping":

remmina-preferences-rdp

It made my work more comfortable🙂

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Šárka Melicharová

Thank you very much for making my day less painful. :) I am happy!

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nabbisen

Ahoj, Šárka, děkuji, too, for your comments 😄 I'm happy to know my post helped you.

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slodki77

I struggled with this for a few weeks, it was very annoying. In an RDP session I had a keyboard layout that wasn't even available when connecting from WIN11 OS.

I don't know how I missed this setting, thank you very much!

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nabbisen

Yay, thank you for the happy news to me ☺️

Well, a wrong character shown after a key input on keyboard is a sort of hell 🤣

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Daniel Sá

Thank you!

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nabbisen

Thank you, too, for the happy news ☺️

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iznutri

Thank you very mutch! I am very happy ))

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nabbisen

Good news. Thank you for your comments 😄

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Rodriguez Ruslan

Thank you so much for this hint, had similar problem, very annoying! :)) You saved my day

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nabbisen

Hello, Rodriguez.
Oh, really? Very happy to hear it. Thank you😃
Well, I studied molecular biology, too. I didn't know of Linux at all, then...🤭 You are wonderful.