That was it! I use xemacs so I'm always flying all over the alt and ctrl keys, and clearly this apparently random behavior was being triggered by that. I can now switch back and forth.
Thanks!
Rod
Carlyle Sutphen wrote:
Hi Rod, hi Tim,
this is probably not a VNC thing but a Windows thing. I had a similar problem mostly in Lotus Notes.
Windows can manage separate keyboard mappings for different programs using the "Text Services and Input Languages" (Languages tab) portion of the "Regional and Languages" service of the Control Panel.
In the Key Settings I found that Left Alt+Shift is set up to switch between input languages. Now, I have a habit of letting my fingers rest on the right shift key while thinking about what I write, which activates the Filter Keys functionality (try searching windows help on that). When I escape out of the resulting dialog, the keyboard state is such that the left shift is still activated. Pressing it will deactivate it. But if I press the alternate key before that, the keyboard mapping gets changed for the active application. If you show the language bar on the desk top, you can see and change the current setting on the task bar.
Carlyle
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