
For RDP SUT ConnectionsĮggplant Functional support for using non-US English keyboards with RDP SUT connections requires additional configuration depending on the language: No special configuration is required to use non-US English keyboards on SUTs that you connect to with VNC. Information about how to use non-US English keyboards on SUTs with Eggplant Functional is provided below.įor additional information and alternative methods for using non-English keyboards with Eggplant Functional, see the FAQ article How do I use non-English keyboards with Eggplant Functional? For VNC SUT ConnectionsĮggplant Functional support for using non-US English keyboards is built in to the VNC server. You can use non-US English keyboards on systems under test (SUTs) with Eggplant Functional and either Virtual Network Computing (VNC) or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection types. This will now ignore any potential keyboard change coming from your remote location so you do NOT have to switch the language again.You are here: Using Non-US English Keyboards with RDP

Call this value IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayoutĭouble click this new value and set it from 0 to 1. Right click on Keyboard Layout, select new and add DWORD (32 bit) Value. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout Log into the server you want to ‘fix’ and run regedit. If you are looking for a more permanent solution you have to crack open the systems registry and make a manual edit. This is most definitely a bug since no where is the Canadian language/keyboard actually installed as you can see from the following screen shots. So whenever I log into a computer via RDP (in particular an AWS windows instances), I have to switch to US from Canada. For whatever reason RDP thinks I am running a french canadian keyboard on my MAC even though it is just a standard US layout. The first way requires you to change the keyboard layout in the languages bar. There are 2 ways to fix this problem I found. It turns out that upon making a RDP connection from my MAC to a windows server, the RDP connection was incorrectly identifying my remote keyboard.


In fact there were many keys that were not outputting correctly. Upon switching I noticed that some of my keys were not working as they should, in particular the key was coming up with ” and # was ? instead.

Previously I was using the 2.1.1 version which worked quite well but felt like changing anyway. Recently I upgraded to the remote desktop app from microsoft that is available in the app store.
