On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Mike Miller wrote:
It looks like I have solved this problem. I don't think it has anything
to do with VNC.
I shouldn't have said that because I don't know the cause. It could be
the interaction of VNC viewer with the Gnome system, but it also could be
caused by IceWM's interactions with Gnome and have nothing to do with VNC,
or it could be an interaction of all three together messing things up.
All I know is that the change described below fixed it immediately.
Mike
I have two Ubuntu boxes -- one in my office running Xvnc server and one
at home. When I was connecting to office Xvnc from home, it was working
fine. When I connected to Xvnc in the office from that same office
Ubuntu machine, I was getting the issue described below. I thought
about what was different between home and office. At home I had enabled
this option in Gnome > System > Preferences > Mouse:
show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed
It was not enabled on the office machine. I enabled it in the office and
then the problem was solved. Note that Gnome is running on the desktop of
the machine that is running Xvnc, but I'm not using Gnome in VNC, I'm using
IceWM.
It's funny, isn't it? I would have thought that enabling that feature would
have caused problems, not the other way around, but enabling the feature
fixed the problem.
Mike
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Mike Miller wrote:
I'm using Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1 on my Ubuntu 9.10 system and connecting
using either VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Apr 16 2008
13:23:14, or the VNC Viewer Enterprise Edition E4.4.3 (r16583) for X Built
on Oct 14 2008 00:18:24 -- both give me the same problem. I'm using IceWM.
I'm running the viewer on the same machine as the server -- I like the
portability -- but I have problem where I hold down the control key and
press some letter, like 'f', and use that to move my cursor in some program
like emacs, and the control key just stops working at some point and I end
up with ffffffffffffff on my screen. This doesn't happen on the same
computer with the same keyboard if I leave the vncviewer and just go to an
xterm in Gnome. I don't know if this is a VNC problem of an IceWM problem.
Any ideas?
Mike
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