Cameron Simpson wrote: |On 19Mar2008 11:13, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: || Daniel B. Thurman Wrote: || > Uh, I started up Xvnc many times before, but I noticed || > something very wierd. It seems that I may have a keymapping || > problem somewhere. || > || > I am able to type in uppercased A-Z, but I am unable to type || > in letters such as bcdipvxz || > || > letter c and p invoked exalle music player. || > || > Is there something I can check to see what is going on? | |Start an "xev" and type in it - it should report key information. | |Have you tried bouncing on the modifier keys. I have had vncviewers not |send the "up" key transition of a modifier if it happens outside the |viewer focus (eg, hold down Alt, move out of viewer, release - the Xvnc |behind still believes Alt is held down). Xev will show this, and |bouncing on the modifier keys (Alt, Shift, Ctrl, etc) in the viewer can |reset the state. >From what I can tell, F1-F12 works. Alt, Shift, Ctrl works. Alt works over an application such that the menu pop-down. When pressing Caps-Lock, all the uppercased characters works. It is only the lowercased letters of 'bcdipvxz' that does not work. Weird. | |It should like the server thinks you're typing Alt-C, etc or something |of that flavour. | |Cheers, |-- |Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 |http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It was not easy to try and figure out how to type in 'xev' where x and v keys are blocked so I had to try cut/paste of existing characters via the GUI interface ;) Any, I managed to get the xev events as follows, a key 'a' followed by 'x' where 'a' is accepted and 'x' is not: Pressing: a =========================================================== KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001, root 0x3b, subw 0x4400002, time 3617255895, (50,45), root:(53,91), state 0x0, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a" XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001, root 0x3b, subw 0x4400002, time 3617255935, (50,45), root:(53,91), state 0x0, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (61) "a" XFilterEvent returns: False Pressing: x =========================================================== FocusOut event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001, mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor FocusIn event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001, mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor KeymapNotify event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x0, keys: 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 =========================================================== So pressing key x is not recognized as a KeyPress/KeyRelease event but instead as a FocusOut/FocusIn event? Please keep in mind that this problem only happens in Xvnc and running Gnome. I was not having any problems under any other session window managers - KDE, windowmaker, twm, and so on. Thanks for responding, Dan No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.8/1338 - Release Date: 3/21/2008 5:52 PM
