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  • Help with resources (specifically, with vncviewer)

    From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 5 09:13:38 2021
    BACKGROUND:

    I've been using X for decades now, but never really learned about how to
    set and use resources. Well, actually, I did, once, decades ago, but I
    have forgotten most of it. I know you create a file in some totally
    bizarre format, then use "xrdb" to load it into the server.

    CURRENT PROBLEM:

    I'm using tightvncviewer in fullscreen mode, and want to try the
    grabKeyboard option. According to the man page, this can only be set via a resource (note that most of the things you can set as resources have a corresponding [and easier to use] command line option, but, alas, not this one).

    Could someone walk me through exactly what I need to do to set this
    resource? Thanks.

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  • From Julian Bradfield@21:1/5 to Kenny McCormack on Fri Nov 5 09:25:16 2021
    On 2021-11-05, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
    I'm using tightvncviewer in fullscreen mode, and want to try the
    grabKeyboard option. According to the man page, this can only be set via a resource (note that most of the things you can set as resources have a corresponding [and easier to use] command line option, but, alas, not this one).

    tighvnc is, it says, an Xt client, so it should accept the generic
    command-line resource-setting option:

    tightvnc -xrm '*.grabKeyboard: true'

    Otherwise:

    echo '*.grabKeyboard: true' | xrdb -merge

    That sets the grabKeyboard resource for all programs; to be specific,
    you need to know the program/class name.

    If you want to keep it. put
    *.grabKeyboard: true
    in your .Xresources file (or whatever your distribution uses)

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  • From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk on Fri Nov 5 18:39:33 2021
    In article <slrnso9u40.ceu.jcb@zagreb.inf.ed.ac.uk>,
    Julian Bradfield <jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
    On 2021-11-05, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
    I'm using tightvncviewer in fullscreen mode, and want to try the
    grabKeyboard option. According to the man page, this can only be set via a >> resource (note that most of the things you can set as resources have a
    corresponding [and easier to use] command line option, but, alas, not this >> one).

    tighvnc is, it says, an Xt client, so it should accept the generic >command-line resource-setting option:

    tightvnc -xrm '*.grabKeyboard: true'

    Thank you! That did the trick. Adding that to the command line fixed the underlying problem with vncviewer.

    Thanks for the other info as well. Hopefully, I will have an opportunity
    to use it again before another 20 years goes by.

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