x2vnc and screensaver

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Malcolm Caldwell wrote:

> > Is it properly installed? 
> 
> Which "it"?  I guess the SP is properly installed.  I am fairly sure that vnc
> is properly installed (as a service)

You should re-install the Service Pack to ensure that it is properly
installed.  Whenever new components are added to teh system, SP3 can
become overridden and require a few files replacing.

As for VNC, you used the -install option to install it?

> > Which terminal emulator are you
> > running?
> 
> eXcursion - which has many other vnc problems besides (if I press a key on my
> workstation keyboard that is non standard strange things happen.  Pressing the
> "diamond" key on my sun type 5 keyboard causes any x window (running under
> excursion on the pc) to segmentation fault and vanish.  Also, the cursor keys
> don't work and produce numbers (both the keypad and non keypad ones), the
> numlock acts as a backspace key etc.  All these are probably eXcursion
> problems, but only when interacting with vnc)

Hmmm.  VNC has problems establishing what the current keyboard layout &
locale are, because of the way it can vary across windows on the same
Windows display. Are you using an unusual keyboard mapping?  VNC has to
fake the hardware scancodes associated with the virtual keycodes it maps
from the X keysyms it is sent.  As a result, programs such as eXceed and
NTrigue and the COMMAND.COM, which all read scancodes, not virtual
keycodes, can easily become confused.

> The original problem (screensaver cutting in) is not an eXcursion problem - I
> have confirmed this by setting the screen saver time to 1 minute and then
> scrolling around using the keys in netscape.  Using the mouse stops the
> screensaver.  I did the same test with the last version and it was the keyboard
> that was noticed and the mouse that wasn't.

Peculiar.  I'll give it a go here but unless I can reproduce the problem,
there's nothing much I can do about it. :(

What screen-saver do you use?

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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