I am running RealVNC vncserver 4.1.2 on FC8, vncviewer on XP. Things are running well and then suddenly left click on the mouse moves windows instead of doing the usual left mouse operations. I think it is behaving as if the ALT key is locked down. (Nothing else on the XP side has this problem, so it is not like the ALT key is actually locked by Sticky Keys.)
The symptoms seem to be associated with Eclipse 3.4. That is the main program I am running, so it is possible other programs could cause the problem. In Eclipse, the problem seems to be related to selecting a region using programmatic control, rather than the mouse. For instance, SHIFT-ALT-Up extends the region to the next larger java expression. The problem tends to occur when the region is more than one line. (Similar behavior in emacs does not seem to reproduce the problem.) I can reproduce the bug by running the viewer at 256 colors, and using SHIFT-ALT-Up in java code within the Eclipse editor. Eventually, the region gets big enough and the keys start to behave as described. Disconnecting and reconnecting the viewer does not reset the mouse/keyboard behavior, so it isn't the viewer that is at fault. The lower the color level is, the larger the area that can be selected before the problem manifests itself. (0) Has anyone else reported a similar problem? (1) Is there anything I can run that will echo what the Xserver thinks it is receiving? And is there something similar to capture mouse events? (2) Is there any setting of the server that would result in this behavior? If so, I could try to reset it. Currently, I need to exit everything and kill the vnc session. If I can isolate the problem to something Eclipse is doing wrong in its interactions with Xvnc, I'll submit the bug to Eclipse. I cannot run in an X client now because of bandwidth limits, but when I get a chance, I'll see if I can reproduce the problem without VNC. Thanks. Gary Levin RRC 1N345 Telcordia Technologies _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
