update: problems running multiple viewers from win32

Elliot Turner ()
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:54:40 -0400

I've played around some more, and noticed the following:

- when the keyboard problems occur, the ability to move windows around in
the X display is lessened under Solaris 2.5. one can still move a window
around, but it doesn't move as much as it normally would (ie you attempt to
draw the window halfway across the screen, and it only goes 1/3rd of the way).
This does not seem to occur in RedHat5.0
- if the problem occurs when connecting to a RedHat5.0 server, garbage
does not show up when you type, instead, the keyboard seems to be completely
locked out
- if the problem occurs when connecting to a Solaris2.5 server, garbage
shows up when you type into an xterm.
- closing the viewer and reconnecting to the server makes everything return
to normal.

What I'm doing to cause these problems:
- start up vnc viewer, connect to solaris 2.5 machine
- select "new connection" from the viewer and connect to redhat5.0 machine
- start a 3rd party application (Tested with both eudora light and mIRC)
- from the solaris viewer, alt-tab directly to the 3rd party application
- from the 3rd party application, alt-tab directly to the linux viewer
*** The linux viewer xterm is now locked, not allowing any keyboard input
- from the linux viewer, alt-tab directly to the solaris viewer
*** The solaris viewer xterm now displays corrupted text when you type

interestingly enough, both the linux and solaris viewers can be returned to
normal properly functioning state by doing several alt-tabs back and forth
directly between the two viewers, skipping the 3rd party application.

any reports of this problem?

Original Message:::
>I'm trying to run 2 viewers at once from my Win95 box. Each viewer is
>connecting to a different remote VNC server (one on solaris, one on linux)
>the problem is, when i get 2 viewers running concurrently, it seems to
>somehow corrupt the keyboard capabilities of one of the sessions, where
>garbage gets printed instead of the characters i type. I'm using 3.3.2
>anyone have any ideas?
>
>Thanks

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