Alt Key Issue

[trash1@PlumasBank.com]

Even if you don't get the event, you can always look at the state of the
keyboard to see if the alt key is down when handling a keystroke. There must
be some legacy reason for this problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Beerse, Corni" [mailto:cbeerse "at" hiscom.nl] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Garrett [mailto:garrett "at" bgb.cc]
>    I don't understand why I'm having this problem, but maybe 
> someone else does...
> 
>    I'm running a RedHat 7.2 machine with the RPM 
> vnc-server-3.3.3r2-18.4 from 
> Redhat installed. I'm using the standard windows client 
> version 3.3.3 R3 on 
> Windows XP.
> 
>    When I run emacs on the linux machine, the Alt key doesn't 
> work for escape 
> sequences. Alt-b is ignored. Explicitly hitting escape b 
> jumps back a word 
> (just as expected).

I have similar problems with W2K viewer to Linux or HP-UX servers. Specially
the alt and ctrl key actions don't arive timely on the unix side. I think
there are just to much parties that like to handle these keys: first it is
the firmware on your desktop, then the os on you desktop. If they let the
key's pass, only then it is in the control of vncviewer. The M$Windows based
viewer has special options to simulate ctrl and alt actions to overcome
these problems.