Confirm read receipt. 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 > > [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list >-- End of excerpt from Grant McDorman -- If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dori Singewald Cadence Design Systems Mixed-Signal Solutions R&D 575 River Oaks Parkway Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Building 1, MS SJ1 A1 Phone: (408) 894-2474 San Jose, CA 95134 FAX : (408) 944-7027 http://www.cadence.com _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
