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Citrix Receiver for Mac and British keyboard tomfoolery.

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receiver-iconTomfoolery? indeed! Here is a problem that drove me nuts on a daily basis and I’m delighted to report the great Simon Frost and Dustin Norman of Citrix heard my cries of frustration and kindly resolved my issue outright. Stand up gentlemen they are!

My issue was simple, as a developer and powershell zealot, I regularly used the pipe Symbol (|) in anger. Well in anger i mean, I was literally angry as despite pressing the frickin pipe key, an imposter appeared in the remote console…

pipewoes

  • Looked like a pipe? Yes!
  • Acted like a pipe? NO!

So anyway, being a Citrix CTP has it’s benefits, I reached out to the aforementioned blokes and sure enough a few emails were exchanged and poof! issue resolved.

To paraphrase Dustins email:

  1. Open ~/Library/Application Support/Citrix Receiver/Config in a text editor
  2. Find the KeyboardLayout setting in the [WFClient] section
  3. Change KeyboardLayout to: British
  4. Save the file
  5. Launch the session

Tada! Pipe back to normal. Thanks again Simon and Dustin.

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2 Comments About “Citrix Receiver for Mac and British keyboard tomfoolery.”

  1. BigFredi

    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks for this post, I almost cry when I saw that lovely |.

    Not sure why, but for me it was:


    ~/Library/Application\ Support/Citrix\ Receiver/Config

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