Yes I just have experienced the same problem yesterday!
I had to reboot to move the mouse again.
Please let me know what wrong?

Hoang

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of James Smith
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Mouse loses the ability to "focus"

Hello all - I'm experiencing an issue I hope I can
describe clearly.  

I connect from one windows pc to another with vnc,
login in successfully and, say, open a folder.

I then click once on the title bar of that folder
window, and it loses focus - it greys out.  After
that, nothing I do with the mouse via vnc after that
brings focus back.  I can move the mouse around, but
clicking to bring focus to any object on the desktop
fails.  No right-click of menus, nothing.

This seems to consistently happen immediately upon
connecting to the server.  In other words, this
happens the first time I click to put focus on an
object after connecting.

What's especially interesting is that when I go
directly to the pc I'm connected to (the server), and
use the local mouse that is plugged into it, the same
condition exists - I can move the mouse around, but
cannot select any objects or get any right-click
menus.  The viewer is doing something to mouse
function on the server.

The only thing I've found that brings back focus is
pressing Alt+Tab a few times on the keyboard.  This
works using either the keyboard connected to the vnc
server, or the keyboard of the pc running the viewer. 
This somehow restores the "focusing mechanism" so
that, using the directly connected mouse and thru vnc,
I can again select objects using the mouse.

If I disonnect and reconnect, it happens all over
again the first time I try to click to put focus on an
object.

I have four windows pc's at home, all running the same
exact version of vnc (4.1.2), but with slight
different os's (winxp sp2, winxp sp1, windows 2000
sp4).  I've seen this phenomenon happen when
connecting from any one to another.

Though I haven't been able to prove it, I think the
issue lies with the viewer software.  One thing I
haven't had a chance to explore too much is using the
viewer on linux.  I have a linux box that, so far, I
haven't experienced this issue with when connecting to
any of the windows pcs.  The viewer version on linux
is v4.

I've tried methods other than Alt-Tab to restore the
ability to restore "focus", including remotely
stopping and restarting the vnc server service,
sending Ctl-Alt-Delete keystrokes to the server via
the viewer.  Neither of those work.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

- James

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