How to paste a password in Remmina when connecting to a remote xrdp server
I’m stuck when it comes to paste my password when connecting to a remote machine with RDP (xrdp server) using Remmina:
I’m not able to paste my password in the field.
What I’ve tried (none of these is working):
- Ctrl+V
- Ctrl+Shift+V
- Mouse right click (no contextual menu is showing)
- Mouse middle click
Manually typing it is not an option as it’s a very long random string.
Version:
$ remmina -v
remmina-Message: 20:40:40.645: Remmina does not log all output statements. Turn on more verbose output by using "G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all" as an environment variable.
More info available on the Remmina wiki at:
https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/wikis/Usage/Remmina-debugging
Load modules from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/remmina/plugins
Remmina plugin glibsecret (type=Secret) has been registered, but is not yet initialized/activated. The initialization order is 2000.
The glibsecret secret plugin has been initialized and it will be your default secret plugin
org.remmina.Remmina - 1.4.25 (git n/a)
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS x86_64
Kernel: 5.15.0-47-generic
Note:
Remmina is apparently expecting a ‘qwerty’ keyboard layout by default on my system (see also: https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/) and my keyboard is a ‘qwertz’. -> Going to: Remmina / Preferences / RDP / and ticking [x] "Use client keyboard mapping" to use your own keyboard layout.
Click on the wrench icon or Tools on the left, then select Keystrokes. Then select Send clipboard content as keystrokes
EDIT: Thanks to @s.k there is an issue where Remmina doesn’t detect by default the keyboard layout on the remote system. It is a simple fix.
From Remmina home click on the menu on the right and select Preferences:
Next select RDP on the left hand side:
Then select Use Client Keyboard Mapping:
