[BTW I'm just a punter using the source: there's nothing official about the patch]
Sure, two sets of hot keys would be a dusty road to nowhere nice. I'm not sure if management of "nested" sessions has a decent solution. Ideally the first WM should be configured to "pass all" to the nested WM while vncviewer has the focus.
One trick often mentioned is to push NumLock: then your hotkeys fly past the first WM and land on the nested WM. This is because (normally) your hotkey bindings do not include the NumLock modifier - so Atl+Tab looks like Alt+Tab+NumLock and is not noticed as "hot" by the immediate WM. By the time the key combination reaches clients of the nested Xvnc session, the NumLock has been stripped, so the nested WM acts on Alt+Tab.
It works, but I dunno whether the NumLock stripping is deliberate or a "feature". [There is mail archive material relating to NumLock's state being hard to determine at vncviewer connection time.]
Michael Haggerty wrote:
Parts of what you mention seem to be true bugs (e.g, vncviewer losing focus). But I was DELIGHTED to find that the window manager bindings are disabled while vncviewer is running in fullscreen mode. The reason? I have another window manager running inside vncserver on the remote machine, and I want all of my hotkeys etc. to make it through to the "inner" window manager. Without this feature the utility of VNC would be greatly diminished for me because I would effectively have to define two sets of hotkeys--one for the local X session and one that gets passed through to the vncserver. So please, please continue to have vncviewer gobble up all events (except F8) when it is in fullscreen mode!
Michael
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 18:10, Mark Rainford wrote:
Applicability:
3.3.3r2 -> 3.3.7 unix vncviewer Dunno 'bout later versions, sorry.
Symptom:
vncviewer -fullscreen breaks window manager bindings: the user cannot lower/raise the window, and cannot gotoDesk (fvwm). Worse, on a multi-head display (non-xinerama), once the pointer leaves vncviewer -fullscreen it never regains focus, so F8 no longer pops up the menu, and it is impossible to exit vncviewer other than by kill from another process.
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