Newbie: Clicks accepted in some windows and not others

[steve menard]

Zone Alarm has a setting in preferences to protect itself
uncheck it so you can use mouse or keyboard to change settings with vnc

I Haven't encountered the AVG setting required
even though I do use it ;-0


andrew_hardy "at" sky.com wrote:
> In brief:
> Can click on some windows on remote desk top, but not on others.
>
> Detail:
> I have the server on my daughters machine and client on mine.
>
> I connect to her machine and see 3 windows/dialogs
>
> 1.  Windows Family Safety Login (on top)
> 2.  Upgrade dialog for AVG (I think)
> 3.  ZoneAlarm warning dialog.
>
> Also my daughter has a fancy mouse setup.
>
> I have pointer events active.
>
> I can click on the family safety signin dialog and access all its controls,
> but I CANNOT select check box and allow button on ZoneAlarm warning
> (although the Allow button does change shade as expected when I hover), also
> I CANNOT select the AVG update dialog or any of its controls.
>
> Neither of these two windows will come to the foreground even just clicking
> on the tite bar.  BUT if I go to my daughters machine it all works fine.
>
> Are some dialogs/windows blocked from VNC or is there some kind of always on
> top issue here, or what?
>
> I spent a while searching the archive, but obviously I have the wrong search
> string or this is a new problem.
>
> Any advice greatly appreciated.
>
> Andrew
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