Re: [RP] Problem mit ratpoison in vnc in ratpoison

[Shawn Betts]

Gerhard Siegesmund <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello all
>
> Just a small question. I am using ratpoison on debian. To work on
> another server in my network I use vnc (xtightvncviewer or xvncviewer)
> to have sort of screen-like capabilities.
>
> Now I have the following problem: If I want to for example change the
> focus in the inner ratpoison, I (if I read correctly) am supposed to do:
>
> C-t t n
>
> which means send C-t through the outer ratpoison to the inner (C-t t),
> then n to go to the next window. But it doesn't work. It seems like I
> am not able to get the C-t through to the inner ratpoison? Is this a
> known problem? Is there a fix for this? Did I configure something
> wrong? Any hints?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance! :)

ratpoison sends a synthetic C-t event to the focused window. X windows
tags it as such and I suspect vnc is discarding it (for security
reasons). I know xterm by default does the same but has an X resource
setting that will let it accept these events. Perhaps vnc has
something similar.

-Shawn