Recent changes to 2079: AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

Alan Woods — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:46:11 -0000

Can confirm that Glen's method above works.

Thank you, Glen.

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

Glen Nowak — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:02:10 -0000

I've had this issue as well. To resolve it requires some minor configuration changes. Open Remote Desktop Connection and expand Show Options in the bottom left. Click the Local Resources tab and change Apply Windows key combinations to "On this computer" and now connect to the remote computer. At the top of the RDP session click "Unpin the connection bar". After these steps you should be able to use auto type on the remote PC.

You can also edit KeePass entries to auto-type with specific remote PCs by editing the Auto-Type tab of the entry and adding a target window that you currently have opened. If you want the entry to work on all Remote Desktop Connections edit the Target Window name on the Auto-Type tab to *Remote Desktop Connection

This allows you to press an auto-type keyboard shortcut and be able to select which entry you'd like to autotype within the window without having to click back to the KeePass main window.

See if this helps.

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

Paul — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 05:36:21 -0000

As it works when not in full screen it's hard to work out what may be causing the issue. It's possible the screen driver is at fault.
What machine / video card / driver are both of you using?

cheers, Paul

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

Alan Woods — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 01:28:46 -0000

Just to confirm, this is still still impacting.

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

redge — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 09:35:29 -0000

Same here. On my corporate PC, autotype on a full screen RDP does not work.

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

Alan Woods — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:16:28 -0000

Hi,

Tried this sequence:
%{TAB}{DELAY 500}{DELAY=50}{UserName}{VKEY 9}{Password}{VKEY 9}{VKEY 13}

And tried this sequence:
{APPACTIVATE SomeServer - Remote Desktop Connection}{DELAY 500}{DELAY=50}{UserName}{VKEY 9}{Password}{VKEY 9}{VKEY 13}

Neither helped.

This is really odd, and rather annoying. I'm sure it worked reliably for many years up until some weeks or a very few months ago.

Not sure what changed. Could have been a KeePass version change or a Windows 10 Pro version change.

I'm working on a corporate SOE device so am limited as to what I can do. I'll see if I can get another device and maybe another person to reproduce it.

Cheers,
Alan

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

Paul — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 06:11:31 -0000

Add Alt Tab to the front of the Auto-Type to see if that fixes it.

cheers, Paul

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

Alan Woods — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 02:50:18 -0000

Hi Paul,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to this. Work and stuff...

You ask another good question.

I open the RDP session in full screen and focus on it. Also type some characters to verify that typing works, then delete the typed characters.
Change focus to KeePass to create and then delete a new entry, just to prove that I have focus.
Change focus back to RDP either by clicking the KeePass minimize button or or by pressing Alt-Tab.
Auto-type appears to do nothing.
Manual typing sends characters to the RDP session as expected.
"Normalizing" the RDP screen causes Auto-type to send characters to the RDP session as expected.

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

Paul — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 06:22:53 -0000

Open the RDP session, then KeePass.
Type something in KeePass then click the KeePass minimize button.
Can you now type into the RDP session?

cheers, Paul

#2079 AutoType to FullScreen RDP window fails silently

Alan Woods — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:39:09 -0000

Hi Paul,

No joy.

Normally use this as my default Auto-Type string:

{DELAY 500}{DELAY=50}{UserName}{VKEY 9}{Password}{VKEY 9}{VKEY 13}

For the suggested test I modified it to this:

{DELAY 3500}{DELAY=50}{UserName}{VKEY 9}{Password}{VKEY 9}{VKEY 13}

Same results as before, with or without the mouse clicks.

I also note that if it were a focus delay problem, at least some of the username or password should show up, but I'm seeing no activity when the RDP session is in full screen.

The test case has a username and password length of 31 characters plus the 2x "tabs" and 1 "return", for a total of 33 characters. With an inter-character delay of 50ms plus the 3500ms start delay, that's just over 5 seconds from start to finish.