xmodmap problems under VNC 4.0

[David Balazic]

I am guessing that this is a feature of VNC. If you press 'z',
it will make sure that 'z' appears at the remote end, no matter what lies in
between.
I think this is so that it works* when client and server have different
keyboard
layouts.

*- is _supposed_ to work. I had some problems in 3.3.7, have to check v4.0
yet

Regards,
David


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> Subject: 	xmodmap problems under VNC 4.0
> 
> On both Solaris and Linux, upgrading to VNC 4.0 from 3.3.7 broke xmodmap.
> 
> I'm seeing this not only in our private builds, but in the Linux and
> solaris
> binaries downloaded from realvnc.com. 
> 
> As a pathological example, let's say we want to have the z key send "a"
> 
> - "xev" shows that the keycode for z is 52
> - "xmodmap -pk | grep 52" shows that keycode 52 sends "z"
> - run: xmodmap -e 'keycode 52 = a'
> - "xmodmap -pk | grep 52" shows that keycode 52 sends "a"
> - However, "xev" shows that pressing the z key now sends keycode 255 and 
>   keycode   255 is still "z"
> 
> I'm guessing that this is a "feature" of Xfree86-4.3, but I couldn't find
> any discussion either on the mailing list or on google.   Can anyone else
> reproduce this, or tell me what's going on?
> 
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