Select System Preferences / Quit System Preferences.
It is safe to check them all, especially if you are going to need to reboot your Mac.
If Options dialog is not shown, click Options.
Press Command (⌘) - Space to open Spotlight Search.
The first thing we have to do is enable Remote Management of the Mac. I will assume at this point you are on the Mac using the Mac keyboard. I will be configuring a virgin MacBook with the following specs: However, you do not have to touch it! First, we will configure the Mac then we will download the software we need to use to connect to it. But if you are going to develop for iOS you have to have a Mac in your life. This will now ignore any potential keyboard change coming from your remote location so you do NOT have to switch the language again.I am not a Mac user and I love my Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard and all my monitors. Call this value IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayoutĭouble click this new value and set it from 0 to 1. Right click on Keyboard Layout, select new and add DWORD (32 bit) Value. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout Log into the server you want to ‘fix’ and run regedit. If you are looking for a more permanent solution you have to crack open the systems registry and make a manual edit. This is most definitely a bug since no where is the Canadian language/keyboard actually installed as you can see from the following screen shots. So whenever I log into a computer via RDP (in particular an AWS windows instances), I have to switch to US from Canada. For whatever reason RDP thinks I am running a french canadian keyboard on my MAC even though it is just a standard US layout. The first way requires you to change the keyboard layout in the languages bar. There are 2 ways to fix this problem I found. It turns out that upon making a RDP connection from my MAC to a windows server, the RDP connection was incorrectly identifying my remote keyboard. In fact there were many keys that were not outputting correctly. Upon switching I noticed that some of my keys were not working as they should, in particular the key was coming up with ” and # was ? instead. Previously I was using the 2.1.1 version which worked quite well but felt like changing anyway. Recently I upgraded to the remote desktop app from microsoft that is available in the app store.