Package: vnc4server Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-17 Severity: normal
I quite regularly use VNC to connect to an existing X session from a Windows machine. About 24 hours ago I noticed that while using GNOME over VNC, a dialog kept popping up asking if I wanted to enable 'sticky keys', explaining that I had hit shift 5 times in a row. I hadn't hit shift 5 times in a row, but I had been holding shift for a second or so each time. Running 'xev' shows me that when I hold the shift key down, multiple KeyPress and KeyRelease events are sent very quickly. See http://s89213869.onlinehome.us/shift.txt for a transcript. I tried using both x11vnc's /usr/bin/x11vnc and vnc4server's /usr/bin/x0vnc4server, and both show the same behaviour. I also tried starting a new X session on display :1 using vnc4server's /usr/bin/vnc4server and vncserver's /usr/bin/realvncserver, and pointing the Windows VNC client at port 5901. Neither of those exhibit the problem. I see one KeyPress event when I press shift, and another when I release it. Nothing in between. In this case, the Debian machine's monitor doesn't show the X session. The problem only seems to exist when I connect to an existing display. This bug should probably be filed against package x11vnc as well as vnc4server, since both are affected. I'm pretty sure that this didn't start happening until a day or two ago. I've not seen any VNC related updates recently, but there have been several xorg updates, so perhaps the problem lies there. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages vnc4server depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-9 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Testing -- Resource extension ii vnc-common 3.3.7-13 Virtual network computing server s ii x11-common 1:7.1.0-1 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds-3 miscellaneous X clients ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages vnc4server recommends: ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-3 standard fonts for X -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
