Author: Stephen Rowles Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Krfb (VNC) remote connect nightmare with
screensaver *solved*
On 11/27/2009 09:08 AM, Antony wrote: > Stephen Rowles wrote:
>
>>> I'm running Fedora 11 and trying to allow remote access to my machine
>>> via Krfb - I need to get this working so I can work from home tomorrow!
>>> If I'd know it was going to be difficult I would have started earlier
>>> :(. I rather foolishly assumed that because Krfb came pre-installed it
>>> would "just work".
>>>
>> Silly problem.
>> Turns out that for some reason shift wasn't getting sent via VNC, hence
>> password not working!
>>
> You left out the most important bit... how on earth did you find out?
>
> Anthony
>
I don't know why I even thought to try, but I unlocked the machine
locally, then connected in via VNC from another machine here at work. I
tried typing into an instance of kwrite and discovered that shift was
being ignored. I still don't know why or how to fix it!
Cue a day of having to use caps lock, or copy/paste to get at any
characters that require shift! Fortunately most things could be
auto-completed in Eclipse for development work so it was simply a case
of typing until the shifted character and then using ctrl+space and
arrow keys to select :).
Weirdly Ctrl and Alt work fine, it's just shift. And both shift keys
don't work - but caps lock does.
