wrong keyboard mapping with xdmcp

[Loic Domaigne]

Dear Tru64 friends,

I'd like to log on remotely on my Tru64 5.1B CDE desktop using xdmcp. Security issues is here not a problem, since it is a closed network.

I start a new X session from my Unix box similarly to:

bash$ X :1 -query

I get immediately the hour glass, but it takes a while to get the "Welcome logging window". The logging works fine, thought it is much slower than logging locally.

The main problem that I have - excepted these performance issues - is that the keyboard mapping is totally wrong.

For instance q maps to q, e -> y, r -> s, t -> a, u -> 2, ENTER -> e etc.

I used this procedure already with Tru64 4.0D without any problem (whether from a performance perspective nor keyboard mapping).

Do you have an idea what I´m doing wrong?

TIA,
Loic.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Verify your .profile and .dtprofile. Check if there is a /usr/dt/bin/dxkeyboard -load entry. If so, try commenting that.

[Loic Domaigne]

Dear Tru64 friends,

the culprit was xmodmap that was executed in $HOME/.dtprofile.

I commented that line out, and performed the corresponding loading in $HOME/.profile depending whether local or remote keyboard is used. Seems to work fine now.

The performance issue was a networking issue. Since the Tru64 box is connected to a switch, I had to set-up manually to Half-Duplex instead of the negotiated Full-Duplex...

Thanks to Ivan for pointing me to the right direction regarding the keyboard issue.

Cheers,
Loic.