xrdp - how to change keyboard layout
I'd like to contribute here, since there seems to be little instructions.
Find the language / keyboard input you need from here
So for example fr-be French (Belgium) is 080C.
Then run these commands to generate the keyboard mapping for your chosen input.
xrdp-genkeymap km-080C.ini
To copy it in the xrdp folder
sudo mv km-080C.ini /etc/xrdp
Remember that you must change the permissions of the file, so that it can be used
sudo chown root:root /etc/xrdp/km-080C.ini
Restart the service and it should work
sudo service xrdp restart
if you have installed xrdp, you should have te xrdp-genkeymap installed on your system. the utility will be located under /etc/xrdp folder
To change keyboard layout, you need indeed to issue the xrdp-genkeymap command.
The command has to be run locally on the ubuntu machine and not from the xrdp session.
issue the following command to use us layout keyboard during your xrdp session
sudo xrdp-genkeymap /etc/xrdp/km-0409.ini
If you need other language layout, you have to find the correct km-xxx.ini file
Hope this help Till next time see ya
for me it was enough to run next command, in order to set the right keyboard map in X
setxkbmap be
where you must replace the "be" with your land code. You can see the current value with
setxkbmap -query