Notice that I said "I am guessing" ;-) Some VNC guru will have to answer your question.
David > ---------- > From: Peter Fales[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 31. avgust 2004 20:22 > To: David Balazic > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: xmodmap problems under VNC 4.0 > > Thanks for your mail. Do you think it worked the same way in 3.3.7? > (Your mail wasn't quite clear) Our experience is that xmodmap worked > in 3.3.7, but stopped workiing in 4.0. > > -- > Peter Fales Lucent Technologies, Room 1C-436 > N9IYJ 2000 N Naperville Rd PO Box 3033 > internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Naperville, IL 60566-7033 > work: (630) 979-8031 > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:06:04AM +0200, David Balazic wrote: > > I am guessing that this is a feature of VNC. If you press 'z', > > it will make sure that 'z' appears at the remote end, no matter what > lies in > > between. > > I think this is so that it works* when client and server have different > > keyboard > > layouts. > > > > *- is _supposed_ to work. I had some problems in 3.3.7, have to check > v4.0 > > yet > > > > Regards, > > David > > > > > > > ---------- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > on behalf of Peter Fales[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 30. avgust 2004 18:09 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: xmodmap problems under VNC 4.0 > > > > > > On both Solaris and Linux, upgrading to VNC 4.0 from 3.3.7 broke > xmodmap. > > > > > > I'm seeing this not only in our private builds, but in the Linux and > > > solaris > > > binaries downloaded from realvnc.com. > > > > > > As a pathological example, let's say we want to have the z key send > "a" > > > > > > - "xev" shows that the keycode for z is 52 > > > - "xmodmap -pk | grep 52" shows that keycode 52 sends "z" > > > - run: xmodmap -e 'keycode 52 = a' > > > - "xmodmap -pk | grep 52" shows that keycode 52 sends "a" > > > - However, "xev" shows that pressing the z key now sends keycode 255 > and > > > keycode 255 is still "z" > > > > > > I'm guessing that this is a "feature" of Xfree86-4.3, but I couldn't > find > > > any discussion either on the mailing list or on google. Can anyone > else > > > reproduce this, or tell me what's going on? > > > > > > -- > > > Peter Fales Lucent Technologies, Room 1C-436 > > > N9IYJ 2000 N Naperville Rd PO Box 3033 > > > internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Naperville, IL 60566-7033 > > > work: (630) 979-8031 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > VNC-List mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
