Hi On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 01:49:23AM +0200, Chris Moore wrote: > Package: vnc4server > Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-17 > Severity: normal > > > I quite regularly use VNC to connect to an existing X session from a Windows > machine. > > About 24 hours ago I noticed that while using GNOME over VNC, a dialog > kept popping up asking if I wanted to enable 'sticky keys', explaining > that I had hit shift 5 times in a row. > > I hadn't hit shift 5 times in a row, but I had been holding shift for > a second or so each time. > > Running 'xev' shows me that when I hold the shift key down, multiple > KeyPress and KeyRelease events are sent very quickly. See > http://s89213869.onlinehome.us/shift.txt for a transcript. > > I tried using both > x11vnc's /usr/bin/x11vnc and vnc4server's /usr/bin/x0vnc4server, and > both show the same behaviour. > > I also tried starting a new X session on display :1 using vnc4server's > /usr/bin/vnc4server and vncserver's /usr/bin/realvncserver, and > pointing the Windows VNC client at port 5901. Neither > of those exhibit the problem. I see one KeyPress event when I press > shift, and another when I release it. Nothing in between. In this > case, the Debian machine's monitor doesn't show the X session. The > problem only seems to exist when I connect to an existing display. > > This bug should probably be filed against package x11vnc as well as > vnc4server, since both are affected. > > I'm pretty sure that this didn't start happening until a day or two > ago. I've not seen any VNC related updates recently, but there have > been several xorg updates, so perhaps the problem lies there.
If this problem appeared very recently I can only agree. No such updates have been made to vnc in a very long time. Regards, // Ola > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Versions of packages vnc4server depends on: > ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library > ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library > ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library > ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 > ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-9 X11 client-side library > ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension > librar > ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Testing -- Resource > extension > ii vnc-common 3.3.7-13 Virtual network computing server > s > ii x11-common 1:7.1.0-1 X Window System (X.Org) > infrastruc > ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds-3 miscellaneous X clients > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime > > Versions of packages vnc4server recommends: > ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-3 standard fonts for X > > -- no debconf information > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
