OT: Re: how to escape key events?

["Eric Mangold" <teratorn world-net net>]

Just wanted to say that I've come to like Terminal Services (aka Remote  
Desktop) a lot better than VNC, personally. Just a tip in case you haven't  
used it. You can use tsclient (a front-end for rdesktop) on Linux/UNIX.

Cheers,
Eric

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:24:07 -0600, Eli Barzilay <eli barzilay org> wrote:

> On Jan 28, Scott Scriven wrote:
> > What would be ideal is a special keypress used as a prefix,
> > meaning "send next event as-is to focused application, without
> > interpreting it"...  similar to C-V in vim, I suppose.  Is there
> > such a thing in sawfish?
>
> Lookup `quote-event'.
>
> But personally, I have this code (my .vnc/xstartup has "INVNC="yes";
> export INVNC"):
>
>   (define vnc? (or (getenv "VNCDESKTOP")
>                    (getenv "INVNC")))
>
>   (define my-wm-key  (if vnc? "C-M"     "H"))
>   (define my-app-key (if vnc? "C-M-S" "M-H"))
>  (define (my-key-str str)
>     (string-replace "<A>" my-app-key (string-replace "<X>" my-wm-key  
> str)))
>
> It works better for these rare cases where you're running a vncviewer
> inside a vnc session (the quoting thing becomes too hard to count).
> Also, it works nicely with `H' as a WM modifier for the desktop since
> I don't have that when I use a Windows viewer.
>
> BTW -- if you're using sawfish on vnc, a good tip is to use a window
> scheme that is not using fancy decorations, they eat up your bandwidth
> on eye candy.  (I use brushed-metal on my desktop, and a hacked copy
> that has plain colors for vnc.)



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Eric Mangold