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When Caps-Lock is set on on the remote machine, it requires the local machine to set Caps-Lock on to get lower case.

VNC it appears does not map the keyboard correctly is my assumption. There is no way to know the remote machine has the keyboard caps-lock set on or off unless it is right there close where you can walk over and fix the keyboard and turn the caps-lock off on the remote machine.


On Aug 29, 2011, at 02:44 PM, Philip Herlihy wrote:

Why is it that sometimes you have to set Caps-Lock on your local keyboard to
get lower-case characters on the remote machine? Is there a fix?

Philip Herlihy




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On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Dale Eshelman wrote:

> When Caps-Lock is set on on the remote machine, it requires the local
> machine to set Caps-Lock on to get lower case.


Funny that in so many years of using VNC that never happened to me. I had
no idea. Maybe I never left capslock on on the server machine. Does the
operating system matter? I'm using mostly Linux/UNIX Xvnc.

Mike

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I know it happens on Windows - 98, 2000, and XP. Have not used it on UNIX machines.
I went a long time before I accidentally left the caps lock on. Took a while to figure it out.

Dale-


On Aug 30, 2011, at 07:15 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Dale Eshelman wrote:

> When Caps-Lock is set on on the remote machine, it requires the local machine to set Caps-Lock on to get lower case.


Funny that in so many years of using VNC that never happened to me. I had no idea. Maybe I never left capslock on on the server machine. Does the operating system matter? I'm using mostly Linux/UNIX Xvnc.

Mike

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Dale Eshelman wrote:

> I know it happens on Windows - 98, 2000, and XP. Have not used it on
> UNIX machines.
>
> I went a long time before I accidentally left the caps lock on. Took a
> while to figure it out.


Thanks, Dale. I'm glad you discovered this before I did!

I'll have to check that it doesn't work like this on Linux/UNIX with other
toggled keyboard settings. I use Shift-Caps lock to toggle between US and
US/International keyboard.

Mike

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