Citrix linux-client and german keyboard layout

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In case you have to use Citrix on a linux system with german keyboard layout and you run into the problem, that the citrix desktop (at least for Windows that is) doesn't do Umlauts no matter your keyboard configuration inside citrix, you may have a look at the following settings of your ~/.ICAClient/wfclient.ini:

[WFClient]
Version=2
KeyboardLayout=(Server Default)
KeyboardType=(Default)
KeyboardMappingFile=automatic.kbd
KeyboardDescription=Automatic (User Profile)
KeyboardEventMode=Scancode
KeyboardSyncMode=No

There's also a tool for that

Open the terminal, navigate to the installation path, and run the following command: util/configmgr On my machine this resorted to: /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/util/configmgr

For further reading: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-workspace-app-for-linux/keyboard