wslg: Alt_gr key stops working in german keylayout when using wslg

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.21364.1]
Your Distribution version: Ubuntu 21.04
Your WSLg version: 1.0.17.1

Steps to reproduce

Use a german ISO keyboard with german keyboard layout.
Press things like ALT_GR+ß

Expected: Returns
Reality: Returns ß

WSL logs:

Attach WSLg logs from /mnt/wslg

You can access the wslg logs using explorer at: \\wsl$\<Distro-Name>\mnt\wslg (e.g.: \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04\mnt\wslg)

pulseaudio.log
weston.log
versions.txt (No permission apparently and 0 bytes)

Expected behavior

When using alt_gr it should be registered

Actual behavior

Modifier key alt_gr doesnt get recognized

Possible related cause

According to https://superuser.com/a/1245750 this is most likely due to how RDP in windows 10 behaves.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 21 (7 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Add `libsharedguestalloc` (#88) * Add `libsharedguestalloc` * Update Dockerfile — committed to microsoft/wslg by viniciusjarina 4 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Given this was closed over a year ago, which “future release of Windows” are we waiting for to have this behavior fixed?

adesso-os on Dec 16, 2022

Hi. Windows RDP client software team found the issue in mstsc.exe, this will be fixed in future release of Windows. thanks!

hideyukn88 on Jul 20, 2021

@marbon87, WSLg automatically match Linux side keyboard layout with currently selected keyboard layout at Windows side, so basically no need to do setxkbmap, and according to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboards/kbdgr, AtlGr + ‘y’ is not assigned to anything. If key is not assigned at Windows side, no input to be sent to WSLg, thus even xkb has some assignment for that combination, it won’t produce any input, thanks!

@adesso-os, currently WSLg doesn’t work properly with custom keyboard layout which is tracked by https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/173. So I think, in your case, Linux side is default to English layout in Linux side, thus AltGr is not working, thanks!

hideyukn88 on Jan 12, 2023

@MTRNord i apologize, i hadn’t realize the relation to WSLg… if this happen only when WSLg is enable we’ll take the first look, no need to open a bug through the feedback up then.

spronovo on Apr 25, 2021

Workaround is to run wsl --shutdown as that closes the RDP connection

MTRNord on Apr 24, 2021