Bug 498252

Summary:	Keyboard issues using any VNC server
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark I Manning IV <mark4th>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark I Manning IV 2014-01-16 14:11:56 UTC

Control keys do not work across a VNC session.  There may be other keypresses which are not working but ^c ^v etc are the ones that are biting me in the $*^*! presently.

This problem exists with x11vnc and tigervnc so is probably related to something they both link against.  I cannot verify if this is also an issue with tightvnc because this package will not emerge.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-01-16 15:35:56 UTC

Try finding a bug first, maybe on the forums or IRC or a mailing list.

Comment 2 Mark I Manning IV 2014-01-16 16:37:17 UTC

i know of no upstream bug reports related to this as i have no idea where the problem lies exactly.  ossman in #tigervnc (freenode) says there can be issues like this if the client in being used is linked against a version lf FLTK that does not have some "patches" applied. info on these patches is given in .http://sourceforge.net/p/tigervnc/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/BUILDING.txt