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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vnc weirdness as a user, works as root
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:51:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640609210051u1994c760va19d480de15b926f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158814748.8552.7.camel@rattus>

On 9/20/06, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I installed tightvnc on a relatively new system and find that mouse
> clicks are not being registered (both using the browser and vncviewer
> clients).  Occurs with both the fluxbox and twm window managers.  The
> mouse cursor moves over the screen ok, just no "clicks" are being
> recognised.  The mouse works fine on a local (non-vnc - gnome) X desktop
> as the same user.

Have you double checked that the "View only" option is *not* on?  This
would be on the "options..." dialog when you run vncviewer [1].

-Richard

[1] http://www.tightvnc.com/screenshots.html
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-21  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-21  4:59 [gentoo-user] vnc weirdness as a user, works as root William Kenworthy
2006-09-21  7:51 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-09-21  8:39   ` William Kenworthy

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