[Xquartz-dev] Modifier keys don't work (with 3-btn emulation disabled)

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Mon Oct 27 09:45:14 PDT 2008


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.

--Jeremy

On Oct 27, 2008, at 07:57, Brian Bender wrote:

> Er, never mind. It appears the problem is in my VNC viewer (realvnc
> 4.1.3) -- I was using a remote xev through that vncviewer. A local xev
> shows everything working as it should.
>
> Sorry for the false alarm,
>
> - Brian
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Brian Bender
> zt4q4o402-at-sneakemail.com |Xquartz-dev/personal|
> <...> wrote:
>> I followed along earlier in the 2.3.1_beta threads about the modifier
>> keys and 3-button emulation. I'm pretty sure at the time that this  
>> was
>> working for me, but now, running 2.3.2_beta2, I'm unable to get any
>> modifiers to be applied to button clicks (like trying to shift-click
>> to multi-select things in XFCE's file manager, for example). And
>> button clicks in xev look the same regardless what modifiers I have
>> pressed.
>>
>> I've got:
>>
>>   "enable_fake_buttons" = 0;
>>   "enable_key_equivalents" = 1;
>>
>> in my org.x.x11 prefs. Is there anything else I should check for that
>> might be messing things up? Is anyone else seeing this behavior?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Brian
>> _______________________________________________
>> Xquartz-dev mailing list
>> Xquartz-dev at lists.macosforge.org
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Xquartz-dev mailing list
> Xquartz-dev at lists.macosforge.org
> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3221 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/attachments/20081027/0c9fca3c/attachment.bin>


More information about the Xquartz-dev mailing list