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Keyboard input on RDP doesn't work

Open planetrocky opened this issue 4 months ago • 2 comments

Using RDP to a Windows machine using the official Windows app from Microsoft, none of the keys work.

I believe this may have to do with scancode versus Unicode. The app is always sending in Unicode, and there's no way to change that unfortunately :(

The MacOS app has an option in the GUI to select keyboard between Unicode and Scancode; however iOS and iPadOS apps are fixed in Unicde with no option.

planetrocky avatar Aug 30 '25 02:08 planetrocky

I don’t currently have a solution here. video-compare is relying on SDL2 for keyboard input handling, so we don’t have any way of influencing whether scancodes vs. Unicode get sent through RDP on Windows.

I'll leave this issue open for now.

Thanks for reporting this, @planetrocky.

jonfryd avatar Aug 31 '25 10:08 jonfryd

@jonfryd thank you.

It's a nuisance that the Windows app from Microsoft doesn't have an option to select between scancodes/Unicodes. SDL2 here isn't detecting any key presses :(

planetrocky avatar Sep 02 '25 22:09 planetrocky