I am guessing that this is a feature of VNC. If you press 'z', it will make sure that 'z' appears at the remote end, no matter what lies in between. I think this is so that it works* when client and server have different keyboard layouts.
*- is _supposed_ to work. I had some problems in 3.3.7, have to check v4.0 yet Regards, David > ---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > on behalf of Peter Fales[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30. avgust 2004 18:09 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: xmodmap problems under VNC 4.0 > > On both Solaris and Linux, upgrading to VNC 4.0 from 3.3.7 broke xmodmap. > > I'm seeing this not only in our private builds, but in the Linux and > solaris > binaries downloaded from realvnc.com. > > As a pathological example, let's say we want to have the z key send "a" > > - "xev" shows that the keycode for z is 52 > - "xmodmap -pk | grep 52" shows that keycode 52 sends "z" > - run: xmodmap -e 'keycode 52 = a' > - "xmodmap -pk | grep 52" shows that keycode 52 sends "a" > - However, "xev" shows that pressing the z key now sends keycode 255 and > keycode 255 is still "z" > > I'm guessing that this is a "feature" of Xfree86-4.3, but I couldn't find > any discussion either on the mailing list or on google. Can anyone else > reproduce this, or tell me what's going on? > > -- > Peter Fales Lucent Technologies, Room 1C-436 > N9IYJ 2000 N Naperville Rd PO Box 3033 > internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Naperville, IL 60566-7033 > work: (630) 979-8031 > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
