[FreeNX-kNX] ctrl key behavior differs for same client on different machines [SOLVED]

[Brett Johnson]

Hah!  Thank you!  That behavior has been bugging me for a long time, but I never even
thought of the "show mouse position" setting as the culprit.  Thanks for posting this!

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Brett Johnson <brett at hp.com>
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On 12/02/2012 07:59 PM, Mark Wilber wrote:
> Way back in 2008 I posted a question about needing to escape the ctrl key when using
> NX/FreeNX. Nobody replied, but others may have encountered the same annoyance. Many OS
> installations later, it came back to haunt me, but this time I realized the solution to
> the problem. I post in case anybody else encounters it:
>
> When using gnome on linux, there is an option under 'Preferences' ---> 'Mouse and
> Touchpad' to 'Show position of pointer when the Control key is pressed'. (Handy when
> using a notebook in a high-glare environment.) When that box is un-checked there longer
> is any need to escape the ctrl key in NX sessions.
>
> -Mark
>
> Original posting:
>
>
>       [FreeNX-kNX] ctrl key behavior differs for same client on different machines
>
>     *Mark Wilber* wilber at ssl.berkeley.edu 
>     <mailto:freenx-knx%40kde.org?Subject=%5BFreeNX-kNX%5D%20ctrl%20key%20behavior%20differs%20for%20same%20client%20on%20different%0A%09machines&In-Reply-To=>
>     /Fri Aug 8 03:32:18 CEST 2008/
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     I've fruitlessly looked all over for a solution to this.
>
>     While running nxclient-3.2.0-14 on my Fedora 9 desktop to access 
>     nxserver 3.0.0-74 on a Fedora Core 4 machine things work beautifully, 
>     but when using the identical client (installed from the same .rpm file) 
>     on my notebook -- also running Fedora 9 -- there results an annoying 
>     ctrl key behavior. On my notebook, the ctrl key works (but only 
>     sometimes) if preceded by the alt key. `Escaping' a ctrl key is pretty 
>     useless for someone who lives inside emacs.
>
>     Anybody know a fix/workaround that will liberate my ctrl key?
>
>     thanks,
>     -Mark
>
>     -- 
>     Mark Wilber / Assistant Research Physicist / Space Sciences Laboratory
>     University of California, Berkeley 94720 / 510-643-6896 / 510-643-8302
>     --
>     AST:7731^29u18e3
>
>
>
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