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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:30:35 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        scott@sremick.net
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Repeating characters w/ Vino
Message-ID:  <415483EB.50504@marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040924154510.68831.qmail@web41123.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040924154510.68831.qmail@web41123.mail.yahoo.com>

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Scott I. Remick wrote:
| I decided to try using Vino after having used VNC/TightVNC for some
time to
| connect to additional desktops. My goal was to be able to control my main
| desktop (:0). Either way, I'm tunneling over ssh.
|
| For the most part, it works great, except that I have a new problem that I
| never had before with the VNC/TightVNC servers: random repeating
characters.
| These seem to appear during brief moments of latency (I'm running remotely
| over the internet). No matter how carefully I type, a single "e" might
turn
| into "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee". Editing is also a pain, since a single
press of
| [Del] can also get repeated to great lengths. Of particular annoyance are
| also things like CTRL-W. :(
|
| This behavior is with everything else staying the same. If I switch
back to
| the VNC/TightVNC server and connect to a screen on :1 again, the problem
| goes away.
|
| Has anyone else noticed this?

No, but admittedly, I have only used vino in LAN environments.  I also
don't see a bug filed on this, so it might help to notify the authors.

Joe

|
| I'm on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and have Vino 2.7.92
|
|
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