Dear Ola, Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]> writes:
> I'll see what I can do. The package is up for adoption as I have little
> spare time (kids...), but I'll see if I can get some free time some day.
TL;DR: TightVNC 2.x is Windows-only. Cannot send Option key with any
non-Apple VNC viewer to the built-in Mac OS X VNC server.
When trying to install TightVNC 2.7.10 locally for the time being, we
noticed that there actually is no TightVNC for Unix anymore, despite
what the home page says. There is TightVNC 2.7.10 for Windows and there
is the TightVNC Java Viewer 2.7.2. That's it. :-/
We got TigerVNC installed locally, but couldn't get the Option key to
work at all using any of the key symbols that were mentioned anywhere
related to VNC on Mac OS X or that might have made sense in this context
(Meta_L/R, Alt_L/R, Hyper_L/R, ISO_Level3_Shift, Mode_switch,
Menu). Even if we send the same sequence ("xte 'keydown Shift_L'
'keydown Meta_L' 'sleep 1' 'keyup Shift_L' 'keyup Alt_L'") the built-in
Mac OS X VNC client sends when connected to vnc4server running on Linux,
it doesn't work. So AFAICT there's no way for a non-Apple VNC viewer
that will make the built-in VNC server of Mac OS X trigger an Option key
press (it does work using the built-in Apple VNC viewer). Anyone who got
the Option key to work probably is using a third-party VNC server on the
Mac OS X side.
We've given up on controlling the Mac via VNC for now as there were
other issues as well (dragging something in Xcode didn't work and there
were no apparent other ways of achieving the same result). Might try
again using a third party VNC server some other time.
So while having TigerVNC (not TightVNC as there is no Unix version
anymore) in Debian would be great, it doesn't really solve the Option
key issue. The fix in TightVNC 2.7.10 is probably for the Windows
TightVNC viewer to properly send the "Windows" key (Super_L). The VNC
viewers available in Debian already send the key presses as-is, it's the
server side that doesn't handle them correctly.
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