[Xquartz-dev] My RADAR report 6165507

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Hi Peter,

That diagnosis was actually resulting from this bit of information  
from the list reported last month:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Brian Bender" <zt4q4o402 at sneakemail.com>
> Date: October 27, 2008 09:56:09 PDT
> To: xquartz-dev at lists.macosforge.org
> Subject: Re: [Xquartz-dev] Modifier keys don't work (with 3-btn  
> emulation disabled)
> Reply-To: Developer talk about Xquartz <xquartz-dev at lists.macosforge.org 
> >
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jeremy Huddleston
> jeremyhu-at-apple.com |Xquartz-dev/personal|
> <...> wrote:
>> Yeah, I've heard reports of this problem over vnc.  Is it really a  
>> bug with
>> your vnc viewer or is it a bug with the OSX vnc server?  I was  
>> under the
>> impression it was the vnc server.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's just the vncviewer. If I connect to the same vnc
> server with Leopard's Screen\ Sharing.app, the modifiers get passed as
> expected.
>
> - Brian


So, it looks like the Leopard Screen Sharing.app is working for Brian  
but not for you... this is most off.  Brian, can you confirm that the  
modifier settings are working as expected with Screen Sharing.app?


On Dec 13, 2008, at 20:24, Peter Collinson wrote:

> Just to refresh memories my bug report is:
>
> 21-Aug-2008 12:48 AM Peter Collinson:
> Summary:
> If I screen share from my laptop to my main machine - I cannot get  
> any control characters through to X apps on the main machine. It  
> looks as if screen sharing is sending incorrect[NSEvent modifiers]  
> with the keypress... (diagnosis courtesy of Jeremy Huddlestone). The  
> X server on the target machine version X11 2.3.1 release candidate 1.
>
> Steps to Reproduce:
>
> 1)	Install the new release of X11 on the target machine
> 2)	Open an xterm window
> 3)	Screen share from another machine into the target machine
> 4)	Select the xterm window - and press Control-C
> 5)	Observe the character 'c' appearing in the window
> 6)	Now start xev on the target machine and press 'Control' and 'c'
>
> there is some more in the report whcih diagnoses the problem.
>
> Well.................... I've just had  a response:
>
>
> 14-Dec-2008 12:53 AM Stoney Gamble :
> Engineering has determined this issue behaves as intended based on  
> the following information:
>
> This is an issue in your vncviewer application.
>
>
> To which I have replied:
>
> But.. my vncviewer application is provided by Apple - it's screen  
> sharing from the Finder - and exactly what I was hoping you would fix.
>
>
> Can you apply some sense Jeremy??
>
>
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