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On Sep 8,  8:15pm, Grant McDorman wrote:

> Subject: Re: VNC ctrl+mouse problem under Solaris 8? Any solutions?

> 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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