I'd love the ability to have certain WIndows keys NOT get passed through to the Remote computer
I'd love the ability to have certain WIndows keys NOT get passed through to the Remote computer
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Hi,
I have the general setting to send special keys through to the Remote computer. This lets me use Alt+Tab, the Windows key, etc and have them launch on the computer I'm remoted into. However, the one key that I never want passed through to the remote computer is PrintScreen. If I'm taking a screenshot, I'm taking it of the remote machine, but I want to take it from my local machine so I can edit and save the file. If there was a way that I could exempt the PrintScreen key, or maybe any key that I'd want, from getting passed through, that would great.
You could have specific options for keys that people might not want to send through or just let people come up with their own lists. The only one I could come up with was PrintScreen, but maybe other people would want other keys not passed through.
Thanks.
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Hello
I did see your original post in the other forum, and we appreciate the feature request. Technically what you ask for is feasible, but non-trivial: we need to either hook the keyboard input in the RDP session itself (something we have done in the past for things like the mouse jiggler and Ctrl+Alt+End behaviour) or somehow manage the RDP control keyboard hook to not forward certain keys to the session. That's non trivial, and on top of that we also need to build out some UI to allow the feature to be managed. I'd encourage other users who are interested in a similar feature to add their voice here.
However, if I can suggest a workaround in the meantime, I know my colleague mentioned that you could use the "Apply Windows Key Combinations" option set to "On this computer" to achieve what you wanted. It's true that this will trap all system shortcuts on the local system, which isn't what you want; but are you aware that in this mode there are a set of alternate key shortcuts to use on the remote system? You can refer to Remote Desktop Services Shortcut Keys for details; specifically the last table which describes the standard shortcuts and their alternatives.
For example, in this mode: pressing the [Windows] key will open the Start menu on your local computer; but [Alt]+[Home] will display on the remote machine. [PrintScreen] will capture a screenshot on your local computer, [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[+] will capture a screenshot in the remote machine; and so on.
Please, let me know if you have some questions or something isn't clear
Kind regards,
Richard Markievicz
Having alternate commands is nice, but I use keyboard combinations all the time and I don't want to have to remember where I am and then which keyboard combination to use. The only time I've had something I've wanted to not go through is the PrintScreen key. If I'm working in a remote session, and want to take a screenshot, I always want the screenshot to be on my local machine. That's why I specifically asked about an exception for that key.
Thanks.