Bug 297601 – x11-misc/x11vnc 0.9.8-r1, SHIFT key doesn't work

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Timothy Miller 2009-12-20 03:20:49 UTC]

With x11vnc version 0.9.8-r1, the shift key is not processed correctly by the VNC server.  Pressing SHIFT has no effect on any keys typed.  My client works fine with other VNC servers.  It's just x11vnc.

I googled this and asked about it on freenode #gentoo.  Other people seem to be experiencing this same problem.

Reproducible: Always




Portage 2.1.7.15 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.0
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.64
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=5"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="--jobs=5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 aspell autotrace bash-completion berkdb bidi bonjour bzip2 cairo cdda cdio cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups curl cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr encode exif fbcon ffmpeg fftw filter flac fontconfig fortran freetype gcj gd gdbm gmm gnutls gpm gs hal httpd iconv imagemagick ipv6 jadetex java jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kerberos kvm lame lapack latex lcms ldap live lm_sensors lzma mad matroska mjpeg mmx mng modules mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl openmp openssl pam pcre pdf perl php plasma plotutils png ppds pppd python qemu qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rss ruby samba sasl semantic-desktop session smp spl sql sse sse2 sse3 ssl stream svg sysfs tcl tcpd theora threads thumbnail tiff tk truetype unicode utempter vcd vlm vnc vorbis webkit wxwindows x264 xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jeremy Sermersheim 2010-01-04 22:16:39 UTC]

i'm having the same issue with x11vnc-0.9.9

[Comment 2 Jeremy Sermersheim 2010-01-04 22:20:52 UTC]

adding the -xkb to the command line or .x11vncrc file seems to have corrected the issue for me.

[Comment 3 Chao-Rui Chang 2010-01-10 14:25:49 UTC]

adding -nomodtweak will also make number keys work fine.

[Comment 4 Jason Huebel 2010-02-14 23:51:34 UTC]

Adding -xkb worked for me too.

[Comment 5 Paul Tobias 2010-04-30 22:16:27 UTC]

I think this has something to do with the hal useflag. I did disable the hal use flag on my notebook, rebuilt every affected package (emerge -DuN world) and the shift key stopped working. Enabling the hal use flag, and rebuilding affected packages made the shift key work again in x11vnc.
I did not try the mentioned -xkb and -nomodtweak command line parameters.

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2012-12-15 13:29:36 UTC]

Still valid with x11vnc-0.9.13-r1?

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2013-01-20 10:31:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Still valid with x11vnc-0.9.13-r1?