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

[Kelly F. Hickel]

Wez,
	Can you expand on the "provide the RemapKeys" option?  I've
looked through all the option settings in 4.1.1 that I can find, and
googled the obvious queries and can't find any information about
remapping keys (other than f8) in VNC.

Thanks,

-- 
Kelly F. Hickel
Senior Software Architect
MQSoftware, Inc
952.345.8677
kfh "at" mqsoftware.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]
On
> Behalf Of James Weatherall
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 6:06 AM
> To: 'Douglas Alan'; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Command (i.e. Windows-Key) and Option (i.e. Alt) are
getting
> reversed
> 
> 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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