Client and server both tigervnc-1.2.80_p5065 on Gentoo ~amd64. Previous version behaviour was that, when in fullscreen, Ctrl and Alt modifiers were sent to the server. (There is a preference governing this, but it was and still is enabled by default.) Alt is still always sent correctly (as far as I've seen), but Ctrl is not consistent: None of the Ctrl+* shortcuts seem to work in firefox-bin, but Ctrl+C works in rxvt-unicode. The problem appears to be on the client side, as a tigervnc-1.2.0 downgrade (server not downgraded) solves it. emerge --info (from client, will post server's too if requested): Portage 2.1.13.1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.17, 3.10.0-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.10.0-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_E2-1800_APU_with_Radeon-tm-_HD_Graphics-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3627048 total, 2452264 free KiB Swap: 9047036 total, 9047036 free Timestamp of tree: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 19:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r1, 3.2.5-r1, 3.3.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 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*** Bug 519044 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Can you please try patches from https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36186?
Can you please add svn version of tigervnc (v1.4.80) into the Portage tree? I compiled it and it works fine, every keyboard shortcut I tried works perfectly. And more, it works with Portage's fltk (both 1.3.2 and 1.3.3-r2) without any patching.
Updated title (fullscreen makes no difference now) and added upstream bug URL (which has just been closed). An svn build doesn't appear necessary: I just tried the x86_64 binary of the current stable tigervnc-1.4.2 release [1] and found no keyboard issues. [1] https://bintray.com/tigervnc/stable/tigervnc/1.4.2#files
Yes, I agree v1.4.2 is enough but I'm still missing it in Portage tree.
Can you please add v1.4.2 into Portage? I don't mind it's not designed for xorg-1.17, I don't need it. What I need is to get keyboard shortcuts to work in tigervnc. This bug has already been here for 18 months. Is there nobody who minds this problem?
I asked upstream why Crtl key combinations were not working. They said, that fltk needs to be built with the patches included with tigervnc 1.3.1. Also, this is really a shame that tigervnc's viewer isn't working for 18 months now.
And there exists a simple solution: add ebuild for v1.4.2. I tried this version and it's OK.
1.4.2 is now in Portage tree, -r1 is for <xorg-1.17, -r2 needs to unmask xorg-1.17. I tried -r1 and if I don't look at the problem with refreshing the background when resizing (black areas), I can say it works perfectly: shortcuts sent without any problem. I haven't tried -r2 though. So when 1.4.2-r1 is marked as stable, we can close this bug as SOLVED. Many thanks to Raúl - good job!
The bug is fixed and the stabilization of newer versions is being tracked in other bug
