Not able to set X keyboard layout while accessing GUI application on RHEL from Windows system
Issue
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Issue
- I am connecting from Windows system to RHEL6 box
- Both Windows and RHEL uses Swiss German keyboard layout
- Connecting to RHEL system over ssh connection shows appropriate keyboard layout
- Running any GUI application over this session shows default US keyboard layout.
- How do I get desired keyboard layout while accessing GUI application from Windows system?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Windows system running Xming (X-server)
Resolution
- Run the X server on Windows (Xming) with appropriate keyboard layout
- Append below arguments to Xming executable and then run it
-xkblayout ch -xkbmodel pc105
Root Cause
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X server on RHEL is not coming in picture here.
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Problem is related to X server running on Windows system
- Xming is not able to detect the keyboard layout being used by Windows system
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