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

Subject: [ale] Very Weird! keys become 'hot' in tightvnc under Ubuntu-10.04
From: johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 13:08:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Joe -

Thanks. I'll check that.

  - Mills

On Sat, 8 May 2010, JK wrote:

> 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.

> On 5/7/2010 7:37 PM, John Mills wrote:

>> 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!

References:
- [ale] Very Weird! keys become 'hot' in tightvnc under Ubuntu-10.04
  - From: johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)
- [ale] Very Weird! keys become 'hot' in tightvnc under Ubuntu-10.04
  - From: jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)

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