Hi Joey This was an interesting bug. I'll see if I can reproduce it when I get home to my testing machine.
What command line options did you use for the xvnc4viewer? Or more precisely, did you use the -shared option when doing this? I think it may be a combination of a gtk/gnome bug and the unexpected disconnection... Strange anyway. Best regards, // Ola On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:30:17PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: xvnc4viewer > Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-30 > Severity: normal > > I'm using vncviewer to connect from my laptop to a remote desktop on a > system running debian sid, with gnome. In gnome, vino has been conigured > to allow remote desktop control. > > After I connect, I can exit using the popup menu with f8, and there is > no problem. > > However, it's more natural for me to exit by using my window manager's > (awesome) window close hotkey. > > If I have vncviewer open, and the remote desktop has epiphany or pidgin > (or presumably, other gnome/gtk apps) open, a the text input area > *focused* (ie, I've been remotely typing in it), and I close vncviewer > in this latter way, an odd thing happens to the remote desktop. > > Typing on that machine's keyboard no longer works in any gnome/gtk > apps. All keystrokes are dropped. I can, however, open gnome-terminal > and type in that, also typing in openoffice writer's main input area works. > (Neither of those apps is using a standard gtk/gnome edit widget, I > think..) > > The only way I've found to recover is log out and back in. > > Perhaps this is a vino or gnome or even gtk bug? I don't know, but > something is badly wrong if killing the vnc viewer can permanantly mess > up the keyboard in gnome. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages xvnc4viewer depends on: > ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library > ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library > ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library > ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 > ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library > ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension > librar > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime > > xvnc4viewer recommends no packages. > > xvnc4viewer suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- > see shy jo -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
