This issue turned out to be due to the viewer telling the server to resize, and that new size stays. I misunderstood, not knowing that this is communicated to the server.
So as long as I am careful not to ever connect incorrectly, it works as expected. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Brett Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > The OSX key repeat workaround is sufficient for me, thank you! > > Next issue: If I connect to the session with a smaller screen than the > server, the horizontal scroll bars do not work correctly. My setup is as > follows. > - server geometry at 3840x1080 (the size of my dual monitors that I > would have the VNC session span) > - macbook resolution at 1440x900 > > I set the following in the TurboVNC Viewer Options: > - Scaling Factor: 100% > - Remote desktop size: Server > - Full-screen mode: No > > Horizontal scroll bars appear with this configuration, but they do not > allow me to scroll to the right to see the majority of the session. > Instead, they only allow scrolling so that you can see the furthest extents > that you might have seen if full screen mode was on. Since 1440 is much > less than 3840, this leaves me with a large portion of the VNC session > inaccessible. > > The vertical scroll bars work as I expect, allowing me to see the 180 > vertical pixels that my 900 pixel high display does not. > > Is there a way to configure the TurboVNC viewer so that I may always > scroll to the extents of the server? > > NOTE: same configuration: > Client: > Mac OS/X 10.9.5 > TurboVNC Viewer 2.0 (20150714) (Java Hotspot 1.6.0_65 x86_64) > > Server: > CentOS 6.4 > tigerVNC 1.3.0-16 > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:45 PM, DRC <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Confirmed. The issue is specific to OS X 10.7+ and is related to the >> "lovely" feature whereby pressing a letter will pop up a menu of >> accented versions of that letter for you to choose from. The workaround >> is to type the following on the command line prior to launching TurboVNC >> Viewer: >> >> defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false >> >> This setting should be persistent, i.e. you don't have to type it each >> time you log in or run the viewer. >> >> You can get back the old behavior by typing >> >> defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true >> >> I did some googling and wasn't able to find any way to control this >> programmatically from within the Java viewer (it would probably require >> something more low-level, like reading the input events from JNI. Ugh. >> No thanks.) >> >> >> On 9/29/15 10:39 AM, Brett Williams wrote: >> > I'm a new user, and I've been unable to find anything that even mentions >> > a problem that I am having. >> > >> > Client: >> > Mac OS/X 10.9.5 >> > TurboVNC Viewer 2.0 (20150714) (Java Hotspot 1.6.0_65 x86_64) >> > >> > Server: >> > CentOS 6.4 >> > tigerVNC 1.3.0-16 >> > >> > >> > The problem is that only certain keys repeat. Letters do not repeat. >> > Backspace, space, arrow keys, and punctuation all repeat. Furthermore, >> > ! repeats, but 1 does not. It definitely feels like a deliberate >> decision. >> > >> > How can I get letters to repeat? I am a heavy vim user and I especially >> > need h, j, k, and l to repeat. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Brett >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> TurboVNC-Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/turbovnc-users >> > >
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