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I use setxkbmap -option "caps:swapescape" to swap caps lock and escape.

When I use the remmina RDP client to connect to a Windows server computer, the keyboard mapping no longer works.

I have tried FreeRDP, same problem there.

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Yes, that's absolutely normal: if you try to set your local keyboard to let's say Russian and you connect to a Japanese server, you'll still be typing Japanese. Both servers need to be set to the same keyboard...

That's why at a company I used to work at, we changed the corporate policy that all servers world-wide had to have QWERTY-US-International as their default settings!

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    So are you trying to say that RDP dictates that keyboards always send raw scancodes over the wire rather than allowing the client to interpret them and emit virtual scancodes?
    – binki
    Commented Nov 23, 2015 at 21:57
  • What I'm saying is that I've had tons of problems in the past with keyboard layouts in a multitude of OSes and standardised on US QWERTY Hardware for all machines and haven't had any problems since. Using US - International in SW even allows me to write all Western-European languages, which is all I need.
    – Fabby
    Commented Nov 23, 2015 at 22:41
  • @binki yes, RDP accept only scancodes docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-rdpbcgr/…
    – tmow
    Commented Aug 24, 2021 at 11:46
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I've just implemented this feature in Remmina, therefore any version prior 1.4.21, that as of Today is still not yet released, cannot remap scancodes.

In the meanwhile the only temporary solution is to use xfreerdp if you have at least the version 2.3.0

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  • Losing my mind that this was working, and now it's not. I didn't have to use the remmina.keymap or rdp_kbd_remap, it just worked checking use client keymap because I already have swapped ctrl and alt on both. Then it stopped working and I can't figure out why, ha. Now I'm trying both of those previous mentioned options and racking my brain
    – shmup
    Commented Sep 7, 2022 at 3:57

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