[ale] Very Weird! keys become 'hot' in tightvnc under Ubuntu-10.04

[JK]

In the VNC viewer menu, make sure "Ctrl Down", "Alt Down", etc
are not checked. These are in the main window-frame menu (top
left corner) in vncviewer, at least on Windows.

-- JK


On 5/7/2010 7:37 PM, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I just set up ubuntu-10.04 'desktop' and it went very easily, but
> something strange happens when I try to access a VNC session on the new
> machine: ordinary, useful keys ('s', 'm') typed into a console window are
> interpreted as control keys and bring out window-control dropdown menus
> like 'logout/shutdown/restart'. Not very useful!
>
> I've seen the problem from viewers on MsWin Vista and Fedora Linux so I'm
> convinced it's going on at the server. Ordinary console sessions on the
> X11 desktop have no such behavior.
>
> I installed 'tightvnc-1.3.9' using 'aptitude install vncviewer' and just
> took what I got.
>
> At first I was pleased that 'tightvnc's server used my personal desktop
> and window manager, but maybe that's the problem.
>
> Has anyone seen such behavior? Better, has anyone _controlled_ this
> behavior??
>
> TIA.
>    - Mills
>
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