Re: [SOLVED]Re: failure of persistence of control key

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Mike Miller wrote:

> It looks like I have solved this problem.  I don't think it has anything 
> to do with VNC.  I have two Ubuntu boxes -- one in my office running 
> Xvnc server and one at home.  When I was connecting to office Xvnc from 
> home, it was working fine.  When I connected to Xvnc in the office from 
> that same office Ubuntu machine, I was getting the issue described 
> below.  I thought about what was different between home and office.  At 
> home I had enabled this option in Gnome > System > Preferences > Mouse:
>
> show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed
>
> It was not enabled on the office machine.  I enabled it in the office 
> and then the problem was solved.  Note that Gnome is running on the 
> desktop of the machine that is running Xvnc, but I'm not using Gnome in 
> VNC, I'm using IceWM.
>
> It's funny, isn't it?  I would have thought that enabling that feature 
> would have caused problems, not the other way around, but enabling the 
> feature fixed the problem.


Unfortunately, I was mistaken about that fix.  I think the problem has 
something to do with full-screen mode.  If I am not in full screen mode, 
my ctrl keys don't work -- not for keystrokes and not for mouse clicks -- 
but they do work in full-screen mode.  When I am connecting to localhost, 
it seems that after some time my control keys will stop working correctly, 
losing their persistence, but when I leave full-screen mode and return to 
it, they will work correctly again.  Leaving full-screen mode to change 
Gnome settings provided a temporary fix, but not because I had changed the 
settings.  So this issue remains "NOT SOLVED."  ;-(

Mike

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