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.
That explains why the meta command ``didn't work'' on my xterm windows.
Your email led me to man xterm and look for ``synthetic''.
It'd be helpful if a note about this `synthetic' stuff could be mentioned in the
ratpoison manpage, under the meta command.
Regards,
Nazri