![]() I’m not sure if that depends on the physical wiring of the keyboard or which keyboard layout Mac OS X chooses to map it into or what. Well it’s not as simple as Apple having picked whichever keyboard you happen to be using.įor example, I’m using a Logitech Keyboard and when physically connected to my laptop it’s exactly the opposite of what you describe, the keys even have the appropriate Apple labelling painted on them matching our OSXvnc mapping. TightVNC doesn’t seem to send either the Command or Option keys, though, so that makes it pretty difficult to use with OSXvnc anyway.) (Though the TightVNC client hangs fairly often when used with it, I don’t know if the problem is with TightVNC or with OSXvnc. It should be said that in all other respects, OSXvnc works like a charm, and so I am happy with it. ![]() If you can tell me how to tell OS X to interpret the PC keyboard differently, so that my keyboards at home and at work will behave the same, then that might also do the job, but I worry then about having to reconfigure X, etc., and who knows what endless regress I might end up in. Using an Apple keyboard with my Macintosh is not an option as I require a Kinesis Contour ergonomic keyboard as a remedy for carpal tunnel syndrome. (I don’t really care if I have to suddenly switch from one mapping to another, as long as I can have the mapping the same everywhere, because I can’t comfortably change mappings several times a day!) To do otherwise doesn’t really make sense to me, despite the fact that some people may have gotten used to having things be backwards. I should think that you would want to be consistent with the way that Apple does things so that things work the same remotely and locally. You should know that the Mac itself does the opposite mapping, as I have a PC keyboard plugged into my Macintosh, and it interprets the Windows key as the Command key and the Alt key as the Option key – the reverse of what OSXVnc does. Okay, well I hope you will provide an option for reversing the two keys soon, as the issue is causing my hands no end of grief. In the future we hope to expose the keyboard loading into a file which can be modified for international users or people, such as yourself, who want to remap the modifier keys. We recognize that this isn’t ideal for everyone but if we switched it now many more people would believe we had “broken” it than “fixed” it.Īt this time the key mapping is hardcoded into the application. We chose physical placement over label names because most people type by feel rather than by reading the keys. This most closely replicates the physical placement of the keys on a standard US-101 keyboard. We have chosen to map the Windows ALT key to the Mac’s Command key and the Windows “Logo” Key to the Mac’s Option Key (sometimes called Alt). You could just as easily say RealVNC is “wrong” in the keycodes it’s client is sending. In this particular situation there is no perfect solution, there is no Apple Command key or Apple Option key on a Windows keyboard, what’s more, the Windows Keys and the Mac Keys are both being mapped into X Windows Terminology, so there really is no single correct interpretation. Is there any way that I can fix this incorrect behavior? Is quite annoying, as my fingers have to do different things The Mac to see a press of the Alt key, and I have to press the Alt keyįor the Mac to see a press of the Windows key. I.e., I have to press the Windows key for Everything works great,Įxcept for one thing: the Command (i.e. Talk to an OS X Mac running an OSXvnc server. ![]() Hi – I’m trying to use the RealVNC client on a Windoze XP computer to Have you tried contacting the OSXvnc developers to It sounds like OSXvnc has the two keysyms the wrong way around in its Here is the email conversation with RealVNC so far: I sent off an email about this annoying issue to the RealVNC mailing list, and they told me that I should be complaining here instead.
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