This is usually caused by having Num Lock on. On most X systems - including
Solaris - Num Lock is treated as an extra modifier, like control or shift.
This means, in essence, that you are pressing Num_Lock+Ctrl+Left, not
Ctrl+Left; applications that look for *just* Ctrl+Left thus don't respond to
Num_Lock+Ctrl+Left.

fvwm2 is one of those applications, by the way. However, in this case you
can add lines to your .fvwm2rc. Look at the output of xmodmap -pm, which
will look like:

xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4        Super_L (0x73),  Super_R (0x74)
mod5        Scroll_Lock (0x4e)

Then, duplicate every line that is using a modifier (Ctrl, Alt, etc) and add
the modifier that has Num_Lock (in this example, mod2).

There should be something in the message archives about this - the subject
has come up at least once or twice before.

xkeycaps doesn't work, by the way, because it is specific to the X server
and keyboard; it needs to know the mapping between keycodes (server-assigned
key ID numbers) and keysyms (logical key names), and it needs to know where
those keys are phyiscally located.. For VNC, it's not really practical to do
- VNC assigns keycodes dynamically for some keys outside of the core set.
The core set always has the same keycodes, however.

According to Andrew Ward:
> I have had an ongoing problem for mpnths now and I am now really
> trying to deal with it.
>
> Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
>
> When I use ctrl+ Left or ctrl+Right mouse buttons on vncviewer, both
> running on my Solaris 5.8 workstation, The ctrl+mouse button is
> ignored.


--

Grant McDorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sr. Software Design Consultant
Cedara Software Corp.  <URL:http://www.cedara.com>
  (formerly I.S.G. Technologies Inc.)
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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