Big report: Shift+Alt doesn't work from Unix vncviewer

Alan Cox alan "at" cymru.net
Sun, 05 Apr 1998 16:52:16 +0000


> I confess to being something of an X-o-phobe but offhand, I'd say that the

Oh and you seemed to be such a nice guy ;)

> client Linux box is probably intercepting the Shift-Alt-Fn and using it in
> the window manager locally, rather than passing them on to VNC to send to
> the desktop.  Could this be the case?

Its exactly the cause . There's a similar problem with Doom and
ctrl-shift-arrow (run fast, firing in direction) being grabbed. Take the key
bindings out of the fvwm configuration