HID events in Remote Desktop RDP / RDS

[wilco]

Hi!

With my SpaceMouse Wireless BT Edition, almost everything works perfectly in Windows Remote Desktop using RemoteFX: Windows 11 Client connecting to Windows Server 2022 and using the 3DxWare software on the RDS server/host. The server thinks the SpaceMouse is connected directly, so it's great! No problems using the wireless connection with the Universal Receiver.

There is one small quirk: HID Keyboard and HIDMouse events are not working on the host system. So any keypresses in macros or mouse wheel events seem to get swallowed on the RDS server, whereas HIDJoystick etc are all working fine. They work fine locally with the exact same settings etc.

One workaround for the buttons: I've created some small separate executable files from AHK scripts eg Send {WheelDown} and Send {WheelUp} to run as "Applications" -- this works fine but is clunky. So it seems the issue is with 3Dxware's virtual HID pathway. The problem is I want to map the analog axis to wheel events and this is harder to do as discrete "applications".....

Is there any known issue with RDP Remote Desktop blocking whatever virtual HID driver 3dconnexion is using to send these events?

[wilco]

Found the fix here thanks to @jwick.

Add the following line to global.cfg under <Settings> - on the RDS host server:

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<Settings>
...
[b]<KMJMechanism>SendInput</KMJMechanism>[/b]
...
</Settings>

Now everything works in remote desktop including Keyboard and Mouse HID events.