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
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> 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?
> > > 
> > > -- 
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