There are several clean installations, archlinux + xfce4. Been using for several years, recently noticed that when switching the layout, some characters are not typed. The situation is the same with both windows and linux clients. The next time I logged in, they might change into different character…

Hello @chupa and welcome to the forum! As ThinLinc is symbol-based and not key based, you can unfortunately end up with different key codes being generated. If you make sure to use the same keyboard layout on the client and inside the session, then you should get better behavior. You can set th…

I changed [keyboard_layout] to “ru”, now сyrillic characters are fully typed. But when you switch the layout to en, “tyi” or “bnm” stop typing. The layout is switched only on the client.

Switching between keyboard layouts (especially those that differ a lot, like ru and en) is not something that works particular well with ThinLinc, unfortionatley :frowning: This is a known limitation and it is being tracked in the ThinLinc Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.cendio.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7540 …

After switching the layout, several random keys are not typed

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wilsj 27 August 2025 11:43 5

Hi @chupa,

Just letting you know that as of ThinLinc 4.19.0, this issue has been resolved.

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After switching the layout, several random keys are not typed

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