[winswitch] Xpra keyboard mapping: client: german Win 7, server german CentOS 7

[Antoine Martin]

On 17/10/17 19:55, Berg, Alexander via shifter-users wrote:
> Hi @all,
> 
> a collegue of mine would like to use xpra on Win 7 to get X11 from CentOS 7.
> 
> Unfortunately the keyboard mapping doesn't work well for a german 
> keyboard (CentOS 7 <-> CentOS 7 works well).
> I've tried and can confirm his observation using different 2.x.x Clients 
> on Win 7.
> Switching the keyboard (in xpra-context-menu) from "auto" to "de" makes 
> no difference.
> 
> Could you give me a hint if this is a bug or maybe a 
> not-so-well-visible-client-setting we're missing?
> (Example with log && xev follows below)*
This is likely to be a bug.
As you have probably seen on the wiki:
https://www.xpra.org/trac/wiki/Keyboard
"Keyboard handling is an area that could do with some improvements."

Please file a ticket,

(snip)
> The Xpra_cmd.exe debug-output tells this:
>      Warning: invalid option: 'min-port'
>      Warning: invalid option: 'start-via-proxy'
>      Warning: invalid option: 'mousewheel'
>      2017-10-17 14:50:03,870 Xpra gtk2 client version 2.0-r15316 64-bit
>      2017-10-17 14:50:03,870  running on Microsoft Windows 7
>      Warning: invalid option: 'min-port'
>      Warning: invalid option: 'start-via-proxy'
>      Warning: invalid option: 'mousewheel'
Those warnings are shown when the xpra configuration files installed
don't match the xpra version.
That's because you have installed 2.0, which is old and not even the
latest version from the 2.0 branch. Newer versions overwrite the default
config files.

Cheers
Antoine