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From: Paul Sture on 10 Apr 2010 06:03
In article <86hbnon0ci.fsf(a)aiuole.stru.polimi.it>,
Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi(a)polimi.it> wrote:

> the vnc client for the macintosh "Chicken of the VNC" (aka cotvnc)
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/> assumes that anybody wants
> the "Option" key mapped to some kind of modifier
>
> on the contrary many users of international keyboards, that have to
> use "Option" to enter lots of useful characters (think of "{" and
> think of C programming), would prefer to leave the Option key alone
> and have cotvnc pass "{" to the remote server whenever they press the
> "Shift Option �" keys on, e.g., an italian keyboard
>
> i use these ngs to make an appeal to the developers of cotvnc:
>
> please fix "Option" key treatment for users of non-us keyboards
>

I suggest you file a problem report with the developers.

I had the same problem with Chicken of the VNC and a Swiss keyboard. It
was so irritating that I found another way of working which didn't
involve CotVNC.

--
Paul Sture
From: Giacomo Boffi on 2 May 2010 10:04
Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> writes:

> In article <86hbnon0ci.fsf(a)aiuole.stru.polimi.it>,
> Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi(a)polimi.it> wrote:
>
>> i use these ngs to make an appeal to the developers of cotvnc:
>>
>> please fix "Option" key treatment for users of non-us keyboards
>>
>
> I suggest you file a problem report with the developers.

it seems that developers have left cotvnc alone, no developer has
replied to problem reports posted on the sourceforge site for years,
hence the idea of writing here

> I had the same problem with Chicken of the VNC and a Swiss
> keyboard. It was so irritating that I found another way of working
> which didn't involve CotVNC.

X forwarding? on my adsl connection it is unbearable... what else?

From: Calum on 4 May 2010 19:15
On 02/05/10 15:04, Giacomo Boffi wrote:

> X forwarding? on my adsl connection it is unbearable... what else?

Numerous other VNC clients are available, such as JollysFastVNC, and
indeed the ScreenSharing.app that's been built into OS X since 10.5. One
of those may do a better job.

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