F8 key not workingwith vncviewer??

[Michael D. Setzer II]

Not sure when it stopped working, since don't use it often.
Had noticed that start of connections it was listing F8^M key??
Was trying to use it when connected to a windows machine, and nothing 
happens. Then tried it on one of my other Fedora machines, and from a 
terminal window it puts out a ~ each time the key was pressed, but no menu.
Connected to the same machines using a windows machine with tightvnc's 
vncviewer, and the F8 key works perfectly.
I'v seen a similar problem with something in the past, where the files where 
using the DOS CR/LF instead of the linux LF. In that case, just used the 
dos2unix on source code and rebuilt.

This is a Fedora 30 machine fully updated.
The man and help for vncviewer doesn't appear to show any contact 
addresses. 

Did note that the default file in the .vnc directory was in DOS format, but 
running dos2unix on it made no difference.

Note sure where to report this. Currently have to reboot machine into old 
Windows 7 OS that was originally on notebook to use the F8 key..

Thanks.

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[Ed Greshko]

On 2020-01-25 03:07, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
>  Not sure when it stopped working, since don't use it often.
>  Had noticed that start of connections it was listing F8^M key??
>  Was trying to use it when connected to a windows machine, and nothing 
>  happens. Then tried it on one of my other Fedora machines, and from a 
>  terminal window it puts out a ~ each time the key was pressed, but no menu.
>  Connected to the same machines using a windows machine with tightvnc's 
>  vncviewer, and the F8 key works perfectly.
>  I'v seen a similar problem with something in the past, where the files where 
>  using the DOS CR/LF instead of the linux LF. In that case, just used the 
>  dos2unix on source code and rebuilt.
>
>  This is a Fedora 30 machine fully updated.
>  The man and help for vncviewer doesn't appear to show any contact 
>  addresses. 
>
>  Did note that the default file in the .vnc directory was in DOS format, but 
>  running dos2unix on it made no difference.
>
>  Note sure where to report this. Currently have to reboot machine into old 
>  Windows 7 OS that was originally on notebook to use the F8 key..
>
>  Thanks. 
My vncserver is running on a rawhide instance  tigervnc-server-1.10.1-2.
The viewer is run from an updated F31 system tigervnc-1.10.1-1.

When I connect to the sever and a connection is open the F8 keep pops up a menu as it
is supposed to.


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[Ed Greshko]

On 2020-01-25 06:52, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 2020-01-25 03:07, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> > Not sure when it stopped working, since don't use it often.
> > Had noticed that start of connections it was listing F8^M key??
> > Was trying to use it when connected to a windows machine, and nothing 
> > happens. Then tried it on one of my other Fedora machines, and from a 
> > terminal window it puts out a ~ each time the key was pressed, but no menu.
> > Connected to the same machines using a windows machine with tightvnc's 
> > vncviewer, and the F8 key works perfectly.
> > I'v seen a similar problem with something in the past, where the files where 
> > using the DOS CR/LF instead of the linux LF. In that case, just used the 
> > dos2unix on source code and rebuilt.
> >
> > This is a Fedora 30 machine fully updated.
> > The man and help for vncviewer doesn't appear to show any contact 
> > addresses. 
> >
> > Did note that the default file in the .vnc directory was in DOS format, but 
> > running dos2unix on it made no difference.
> >
> > Note sure where to report this. Currently have to reboot machine into old 
> > Windows 7 OS that was originally on notebook to use the F8 key..
> >
> > Thanks.
>  My vncserver is running on a rawhide instance  tigervnc-server-1.10.1-2.
>  The viewer is run from an updated F31 system tigervnc-1.10.1-1.
>
>  When I connect to the sever and a connection is open the F8 keep pops up a menu as it
>  is supposed to.
>
>  
Oh, I should add that my server and client are both running KDE and using the Xorg
server.

Are you running your vncviewer in GNOME/Wayland? 

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[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 25 Jan 2020 at 7:00, Ed Greshko wrote:

From:           	Ed Greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com&gt;
Subject:        	Re: F8 key not workingwith vncviewer??
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Date sent:      	Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:00:56 +0800
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>  On 2020-01-25 06:52, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  > On 2020-01-25 03:07, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
>  >> Not sure when it stopped working, since don't use it often.
>  >> Had noticed that start of connections it was listing F8^M key??
>  >> Was trying to use it when connected to a windows machine, and nothing 
>  >> happens. Then tried it on one of my other Fedora machines, and from a 
>  >> terminal window it puts out a ~ each time the key was pressed, but no menu.
>  >> Connected to the same machines using a windows machine with tightvnc's 
>  >> vncviewer, and the F8 key works perfectly.
>  >> I'v seen a similar problem with something in the past, where the files where
>
>  >> using the DOS CR/LF instead of the linux LF. In that case, just used the 
>  >> dos2unix on source code and rebuilt.
>  >>
>  >> This is a Fedora 30 machine fully updated.
>  >> The man and help for vncviewer doesn't appear to show any contact 
>  >> addresses. 
>  >>
>  >> Did note that the default file in the .vnc directory was in DOS format, but 
>  >> running dos2unix on it made no difference.
>  >>
>  >> Note sure where to report this. Currently have to reboot machine into old 
>  >> Windows 7 OS that was originally on notebook to use the F8 key..
>  >>
>  >> Thanks.
>  > My vncserver is running on a rawhide instance  tigervnc-server-1.10.1-2.
>  > The viewer is run from an updated F31 system tigervnc-1.10.1-1.
>  >
>  > When I connect to the sever and a connection is open the F8 keep pops up a menu as
> it
>  > is supposed to.
>  >
>  >
>  
>  Oh, I should add that my server and client are both running KDE and using the Xorg
> server.
>  
>  Are you running your vncviewer in GNOME/Wayland? 
>   
Finally figured the problem. The .vnc directory had a default.tigervnc file in it

that was in the DOS CR/LF formated text file. It had been there for some 
time, and didn't cause an issue. At some point it caused the F8^M to show 
up,  but didn't use the key so never looked into it.
Had changed it with dos2unix, but still got the same result. Problem was I 
was in root mode, so it was using the .vnc default.tiger, which was in the 
/root/.vnc directory. After fixing that one as well it is working.

Not sure what created that file. Setup vnc on another user account, and the 
file was not created. Also, tried renaming it, and it works fine with out it. Might 
be that it was created with a previous version. Options seem to be default 
values, but being in DOS format caused the ^M.


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 Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired)     
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 mailto:[e-mail]
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 http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
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