Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Testing with the 1.2 Alpha version

[Robert Goley]

I will report more on this issue after more testing.  I started using Peter's suggestion of running xmodmap -e "remove mod2 = Num_Lock".  This got me two different sets of results so far.  On my Mac running Snow Leopard with the 1.2 FLTK viewer, This disables the numlock key and the keys always type numbers no matter how many times I press the "NumLock" button (Clear on Mac keyboard).  On my Ubuntu machines that had the problem previously, the xmodmap change actually causes the NumLock to work right!  It switches back and forth between numbers and arrow keys just like the previous TightVNC did.  So far I am blaming this on the Mac being unique because of keyboard differences.  I will do more testing with Windows soon and report full findings.  Everything so far has been OSX 10.6 or Linux.  Robert On 07/20/2011 03:16 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Robert Goley wrote: The second issue is with the numpad keys.  I had seen this issue previously only with a linux viewer connecting from 1 ubuntu machine to the server running Debian with DRC's Xvnc binary.  It now seems to happen with the FLTK viewer on all platforms.  By default, the numlock is on both on the local workstation and in the VNC session. This is somewhat strange. I've never seen that Xvnc starts up with numlock enabled. Can you verify if this happens even if you start something basic such as an xterm? My guess is that the Ubuntu desktop or something similar activates numlock. Since the VNC protocol lacks numlock sync, I recommend that you have numlock off in the Xvnc session. If you fail to locate what's activating numlock, you might want to try to removing Num_Lock from the xmodmap modifier map (ie xmodmap -e "remove mod2 = Num_Lock"). There's also a "numlockx" utility. Rgds, --- Peter Åstrand        ThinLinc Chief Developer Cendio AB        http://www.cendio.com Wallenbergs gata 4 583 30 Linköping    Phone: +46-13-21 46 00 -- Robert Goley FOSS Implementation Specialist Toll Free: (800) 338-4984 Local: (770) 479-7933 Fax: (770) 479-4076 www.openrda.com America's only Free & Open Source fund accounting software company.

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