Brian, It sounds like your VNC X desktop has keyboard repeat enabled - you should disable this in order to avoid "spewage".
Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Auld > Sent: 16 August 2006 01:41 > To: [email protected] > Subject: keystroke spewage > > I am new to using VNC and am having a frustrating problem > with keystroke > spewage. While connected to my remote app, I'll type a > keystroke and it > will ultimately be echoed to my application multiple times. > My setup is > as follows: > > Environment > ----------- > Client: VNC4.1.2 on winxp sp2 > Network: Internet - VPN client (cisco 4.0.5) > Server: Fedora 3 running vnc server provided with distro > (vnc-server-4.0-8). > Remote app: emacs (emacs-21.3-17). This is what I always > use, but I've > also seen spewage in xterms etc... > > I googled for 'keystroke repeated vnc' etc... and various permutations > and combinations of similar english text and did not find anything > useful. > > Any history on this or solution would be appreciated. > > VNC aside, I've used the same setup to run other apps via vpn and have > not seen this problem. If keystrokes are sent 1 character at a time > over the network, it almost seems like the vnc client app is resending > the packet for a given keystroke because it perceives the prior packet > (keystroke) to have been dropped ... when in fact they all arrive and > barf all over my screen. This problem is intermittent, so network > latency could very well be a large contributing factor. > > Regards, > Brian Auld > _______________________________________________ > 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
