I have been doing some experimentation with xtightvncviewer, it works great
witout a window manager (so only plain xterm and X running), but I use the
xfwm4 window manager on my normal working system and when I start xtightvncviewer
with --fullscreen the keys of my keyboard are not going to the vnc session,
they only appear on the terminal where xtightvncviewer was started.

I use the following server:
x11vnc -rfbauth ~/.vnc/passwd -ncache -shared -forever -localhost -noxrandr -display :0

I use the following client:
xtightvncviewer -fullscreen -compresslevel 9 -quality 0 -bgr233 localhost:0

I would like to see a -grabkeyboard and --grabkeyboard option added if possible?

I also tested xvnc4viewer and there the keyboard worked fine:
xvnc4viewer -FullScreen -LowColourLevel -Shared localhost:0

Any ideas or comments?

Best regards,

Jelle de Jong

Hi Jelle

Even if you use shared mode?

I'm not really sure what this grapkeyboard option would do. Can you describe?

Best regards,

// Ola

Hi Ola,

Thank you for your response,
tests but the keyevent are still not going to the vnc session.

The command I used: (xtightvncviewer -shared -fullscreen -compresslevel
9 -quality 0 -bgr233 localhost:0)

Just to clairify, when using the command without -fullscreen:
(xtightvncviewer -compresslevel 9 -quality 0 -bgr233 localhost:0) then
the keyevents are working, but when switching to fullscreen the
keyevents are lost (F8 will then also not respond anymore)
xtightvncviewer. It says something about X resources settings, I tried
some things like export grabKeyboard but i have not yet get it to work.
But I need an simple command switch because this is much easer to use
and to explain to others that need to use the xtightvncviewer.

Olmost all other options have command options the grabkeyboard does not
yet that is why I am requesting the enhancement.

From the man page: (grabKeyboard, Grab keyboard in full-screen mode.
This can help to solve problems with losing keyboard focus. Default false.)

Any ideas or other thoughts?

Please also see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510351

Best regards,

Jelle

Hi

Ok.

I see.

Not really. As you have a rather urgent problem (I assume) I do not think
I can help that much. Unfortunatly I have to prioritize other work before
this wishlist.

Best regards,

// Ola

Control: tags -1 = wontfix

I can reproduce this not grabbed keyboard in fullscreen mode issue on
my side.

Unfortunately this needs to be dealt with upstream, but upstream does
not maintain Thightvnc on Linux any more. Thus, do not expect a fix in
tightvncserver going forward.

Sorry for the bad news!

Sven