Thank you for the very fast reply!
Since my work is heavily based on VNC do you have any suggestion in
the meantime? (go back to the wheezy version that was working, try the
sid version or compile another specific version or...? )

Luca

2016-08-09 22:01 GMT+02:00 Ola Lundqvist <o...@inguza.com>:
> Hi Luca
>
> There are many known problems with vnc4. Upstream ceased development
> over 10 years ago.
> We are currently focusing on getting tigervnc into Debian.
> Unfortunatly that will not be until next stable release of Debian.
>
> Best regards
>
> // Ola
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Luca Barion <macgyv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Package: vnc4server
>> Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-37.6
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Since the upgrade to Jessie (that I admit I did only very recently) I
>> am facing quite a lot of problems with CTRL and Alt keys.
>> In lists (eg. in sylpheed list of received mails) holding Control or
>> Alt keys down to make multiple selections with mouse left button does
>> not work at all, while holding Control or Alt and using up/down arrow
>> is working.
>> Inside vnc I run icewm: it is impossible to pass any shortcut key to
>> icewm (both to start programs and to interact with the window manager.
>> For example the following are not working:
>>
>> in .icewm/keys:
>> key "Alt+Ctrl+t"        xterm
>>
>> in .icewm/preferences:
>> KeySysWorkspaceNext="Alt+Ctrl+Up"
>>
>> I consider this quite severe bug. If there is any further informations
>> I can provide just ask me.
>>
>> Luca
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: 8.5
>>   APT prefers stable-updates
>>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>> Foreign Architectures: i386
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>>
>> Versions of packages vnc4server depends on:
>> ii  libc6           2.19-18+deb8u4
>> ii  libgcc1         1:4.9.2-10
>> ii  libstdc++6      4.9.2-10
>> ii  libx11-6        2:1.6.2-3
>> ii  libxext6        2:1.3.3-1
>> ii  libxtst6        2:1.2.2-1+b1
>> ii  x11-common      1:7.7+7
>> ii  xbase-clients   1:7.7+7
>> ii  xserver-common  2:1.16.4-1
>> ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>>
>> Versions of packages vnc4server recommends:
>> ii  xfonts-base  1:1.0.3
>>
>> Versions of packages vnc4server suggests:
>> pn  vnc-java  <none>
>>
>> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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