Even if you don't get the event, you can always look at the state of the keyboard to see if the alt key is down when handling a keystroke. There must be some legacy reason for this problem.
-----Original Message----- From: "Beerse, Corni" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Garrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I don't understand why I'm having this problem, but maybe > someone else does... > > I'm running a RedHat 7.2 machine with the RPM > vnc-server-3.3.3r2-18.4 from > Redhat installed. I'm using the standard windows client > version 3.3.3 R3 on > Windows XP. > > When I run emacs on the linux machine, the Alt key doesn't > work for escape > sequences. Alt-b is ignored. Explicitly hitting escape b > jumps back a word > (just as expected). I have similar problems with W2K viewer to Linux or HP-UX servers. Specially the alt and ctrl key actions don't arive timely on the unix side. I think there are just to much parties that like to handle these keys: first it is the firmware on your desktop, then the os on you desktop. If they let the key's pass, only then it is in the control of vncviewer. The M$Windows based viewer has special options to simulate ctrl and alt actions to overcome these problems. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
