>>I'm happy to say that there's a solution for you - look at the URL in my
>>signature, and download a newer version of the Macintosh server from there.
>
>Thanks, Jonathan, but I just tried it and there are some serious window
>redraw issues with ChromiVNC. I wonder if you could explain the Cmd Key
>Equivalents in VNC Controls, though?
VNC Controls is not used by ChromiVNC - it has it's own internal settings
dialogue. The 'Command Key Equivalents' is thus meaningless. You should
remove VNC Controls from your System Folder, and ensure the version of
vncPatches installed in the Extensions folder is that supplied with
ChromiVNC, and not the older AT&T version.
The AT&T WinVNC viewer has a serious bug in the CoRRE display which
effectively corrupts areas of the screen drawn by CoRRE. ChromiVNC
automatically selects encoders based on the content of the screen, and
sometimes it selects CoRRE (Xvnc and WinVNC servers do not do this
"intelligent selection", to my knowledge). Try disabling CoRRE in the
ChromiVNC settings panel and see if that helps - if so, either leave it
disabled and complain to AT&T, or switch to the TridiaVNC viewer which does
not have this bug.
The keyboard behaviour of ChromiVNC attempts to emulate the Macintosh
keyboard fairly closely. Thus, you can type extended characters (using Alt
in place of Option) using the same keystrokes as on the Mac, including
using the "dead keys" and supporting most software which tries to read the
keyboard directly. The actual positions of the keys on the viewer may be
different, and most viewers don't know how to send every single key on the
keyboard, however.
Also, the F-keys don't yet work - they are an interesting problem to
"press" via software, and frankly I don't use them in any case. Ironic
that the Mac has more F-keys than the PC, yet they're used far less...
If Ctrl+Alt are pressed together, both are replaced by the Command key,
leaving the Shift key intact - if the viewer supports sending of the META,
SUPER or HYPER keycode, the Command key may also be activated by this means
(I haven't yet found a single system on which these keycodes are actually
generated, though).
If you change keyboard layout during a VNC session, you will probably find
your keypresses become garbled (VNC is "typing" using the old layout, and
the MacOS is re-interpreting using the new). Reconnecting causes ChromiVNC
to reload the keymap, which should fix the problem.
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