Command (i.e. Windows-Key) and Option (i.e. Alt) are getting reversed

[James Weatherall]

Douglas,

Firstly, OSXvnc is an open-source project based on VNC, not a business. :)

The latest VNC Server releases all provide the RemapKeys option, which
allows these sorts of keyboard-mapping bugs to be worked around, or custom
keyboard mappings created, etc.

Given that the Mac doesn't have the two keys in question, the only "correct"
mapping of them to Mac keys is the one that behaves the way one would
expect.  Since this isn't what OSXvnc does, OSXvnc's mapping is "incorrect".
Their argument that "some PC keyboards are interpreted wrongly by Mac"
implies that yours is one of them, in which case you would have noticed that
the keys behave in an unexpected fashion *locally* while behaving
"correctly" via OSXvnc.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Alan
> Sent: 27 May 2005 04:33
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: Command (i.e. Windows-Key) and Option (i.e. Alt) 
> are getting reversed
> 
> James Weatherall jnw "at" realvnc.com wrote:
> 
> > Douglas,
> 
> > It sounds like OSXvnc has the two keysyms the wrong way 
> around in its
> > keyboard-handling code.  Have you tried contacting the OSXvnc
> > developers to report the problem?
> 
> They claim that they are doing the right thing for the Mac.  
> The bottom
> line, however, for me, is that I have identical Kinesis keyboards at
> home and at work, and when I use the one at work that is directly
> connected to the Mac the mapping is one way, and when I use the Mac
> remotely from home, it is the other.  I don't care which way it is, as
> long as it's the same in both places!
> 
> They blame the problem on the Mac's incorrect interpretation 
> of some PC
> keyboards that are plugged directly into the Mac.
> 
> Perhaps you two businesses could compromise, and *both* implement
> features to allow the user to swap these two keys.  (The 
> alternative is
> probably that neither will do it....)
> 
> |>oug
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