[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the viewers menu (mouse button on the top bar) you can select the <ctrl> and <alt> keys. Combine them with the required keys and the result is sent to the server.
Please guide me if there is any hidden key behind this.
<F8> is a key to show the above menu.
Cbee
Thanks Cbee for the help. But unfortunately <F8> is not working in my case. Can I press it in Full screen mode in VNC Viewer ?
Check the documentation, I have reasons to believe function keys can be defined. You should be able to define <alt><tab> either in the menu or in a function-key.
The root of all evil is that the os at the desktop does not forward the <alt><tab> combination so the applications (here `vncviewer`) does not see it at all and hence cannot do anything about it.
BTW still I have a doubt in my mind. Isn't it a pain to repeat this procedure for every alt-tab ? Can't the VNC Viewer give an interface like the "VMWare" which catches all the keyboard events except that of ctrl-alt-del. Because I am sure that everybody who works in the GUI mode of Linux using VNC would like to switch between the dialog windows using the keyboard not the mouse.
VMWare has the same problem. They have re-assigned <ctrl><alt><del> to <ctrl><alt><ins> for example.
In the end, the best way is to have some customizable keys, like the function-keys, then users can define their own mapping for frequently used combinations. For the not so frequently used combinations, a virtual-keyboard does suit a need. If the local or remote machine is unix, the application `xkeycaps` can do that for all (and many more) keyboards you can imagine: it can redefine roughly all keys and it can suit as a virtual keyboard.
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