I have this same problem, but connecting to an NT server using a dos app.
My end key gives me a 1, my arrow keys give me other numbers etc. It only
seems to be those keys only. It does not involve the regular letters or
number pad.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "BJ Blanchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: VNC and keymapping problem
> On the Solaris side, comment out everything in .vnc/xstartup, and start
your server with the -query localhost option, which will give you dtlogin
screen.
>
> I don't think Xsession was ever intended to be launched directly by a
user, so its probably same case with AIX.
>
> BJ.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> > Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 15:20:15 -0500
> > From: Shane Ludwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: VNC and keymapping problem
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm using VNC viewer on a PC running NT.
> >
> > I have 2 VNC servers, one on a Solaris box and one on an AIX box.
> >
> > On both of these I'm running CDE and in my .vnc/xstartup file I have
> > Xsession &
> >
> > Whenever I connect to either of these machines and use the xmodmap
command,
> > it completely hoses up my key mappings. For instance, on the AIX box,
the i
> > key generates an e, Tab generates a 1 and Enter generates a ].
> >
> > On the AIX box, it's even worse as Xsession, by default, runs an xmodmap
> > command to load the keymap for your particular language, in my case
en_US.
> > I had to go in and edit the Xsession script itself to comment out that
part.
> >
> > I have tried 2 different keyboards (one from IBM, one from Dell) and
> > experienced the same problem with both of them. My roommate who has a
> > Logitech keyboard experienced the same problem when connecting from his
PC
> > running NT to the boxes.
> >
> > After editing Xsession to remove the xmodmap command, everything works
fine.
> > I did an xmodmap -pk to view the map. I tried this when using all the
above
> > keyboards and I get the same set of keycodes.
> >
> > Looking in the map that's normally loaded by default from Xsession,
located
> > in /usr/lpp/X11/defaults/xmodmap/en_US/keyboard, I see that the keycodes
> > listed there map to completely different keys.
> >
> > I don't have this problem when connected directly on the box, only when
> > going through VNC.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Shane Ludwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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