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diff --git a/Problems-and-tweaks/vnc-key-mapping-configuration.md b/Problems-and-tweaks/vnc-key-mapping-configuration.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c72a6e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Problems-and-tweaks/vnc-key-mapping-configuration.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +# How to configure key mapping with the VNC plugin. + +Remmina has an hidden feature with which you can configure custom key mappings, this is useful if you need, for example, to map the local *Super* key to the remote macOS *Option* key *(leaving theexisting local *Alt* key to the remote macOS* Command *key map alone.)* + +See #1716 for a long discussion about this. + +Keys can be mapped according to a configurable map. There is a predefined map called "Map Meta Key" that seems to be exactly what we need for macOS. + +Edit your connection profile, under "Basic settings", you will find "Keyboard mapping". Choose "Map Meta Keys". + + + +Save and connect. + +**Map Meta Keys** is the following map: + +``` +[Map Meta Keys] +Super_L = Meta_L +Super_R = Meta_R +Meta_L = Super_L +Meta_R = Super_R +``` + +Other maps, using the same syntax, can be created in the `remmina.keymap` file, located in the same directory as the remmina.pref file, usually `~/.config/remmina/remmina.keymap` Key symbol names can be found on the GDK file [gdk/gdkkeysyms.h](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/raw/master/gdk/gdkkeysyms.h). + |