On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 20:34, Roger Searle wrote: > Hi, hope you'll see this different vnc question as being on topic... I > am running vnc on my fedora notebook The other machines I want to > connect to all run win2k or xp, and I have a policy of always requiring > ctrl alt delete for logons. Plus at work staff often lock desktops, > which need same to unlock. This is easily managed when running tightVNC > on a windows machine as the ctrl alt delete keystrokes can be sent by > right clicking the taskbar button (it has a menu option for "send ctrl > alt delete"). > > I can't find any way to send the ctrl alt del keystroke from vnc running > on linux, hence can only do things remotely if a 2k or xp machine is > logged on or unlocked. This seriously limits this option for me, and > doesn't help me increase my %age of time running linux. > > Googling on vnc and "ctrl alt delete" didn't take me to anything on > running vnc on linux, only on windows. Can anyone suggest how I can get > round this, or perhaps another similar tool? >
I use kde's Remote Desktop Connection which is a wrapper to some variety of vnc (and rdp). It has a button in the toolbar to send arbitrary keypresses to the other side. Having said that I cannot seem to get c-a-d to work to the office right now. not helped by a severely lagged net connection due to other downloads. > Roger > >
