vncviewer fullscreen problem in Linux/Unix client

[Mark Bourne (VNC List)]

I sometimes find it necessary to click the mouse somewhere within the 
viewer window to give keyboard focus back to it.

Mark.


20070627vnclist.z.does-at-spamgourmet.com |VNC| wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running vncviewer v3.3.7 under Ubuntu Linux.  I use the -fullscreen 
> option, but it has a problem: if I hit Alt-Tab to switch windows while 
> in fullscreen, it doesn't get sent through the VNC connection; instead, 
> it Alt-Tabs on my local system.  The vncviewer fullscreen window stays 
> on top, but focus moves to whatever other window(s) I have open at the 
> time.
> 
> Furthermore, if I then Alt-Tab back to my vncviewer fullscreen window, I 
> can no longer type into the window; whatever I type actually ends up in 
> the terminal from which I launched the vncviewer command (on the local 
> system). This also means that F8 no longer brings up the VNC popup menu, 
> so the only thing that I can do (besides use the mouse remotely, which 
> still works) is to press Ctrl-C to kill my vncviewer process.
> 
> Is this a bug in vncviewer?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Anthony DiSante
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