cannot use xterm under vnc with gnome-session

[Yuli Friedman]

Binary package hint: gnome-session

Under 10.10, when I run vncserver with gnome-session, I cannot use xterm. Every time I type the 'd' character (lowercase only), the xterm toggles between minimizing and restoring. This has been verified with multiple hosts using different keyboards and with both vnc4server and tightvncserver. For clients, I have used both vnc-client from xenwatch on 10.10 and RealVNC on Windows. Capital 'D' works fine, as do all other characters that I have tried.

My ~/.vnc/xstartup file is just:
#!/bin/sh
gnome-session &

If I take out gnome-session and use the following ~/.vnc/xstartup file:
#!/bin/sh
xterm &

then it works fine.

Thanks,
Yuli

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-session 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 15 06:10:25 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-session

[Joe Areeda (areeda)]

This is a known issue with VNC and its installer. The problem is there is a keyboard shortcut set that minimizes the window. If you go to System/preferences/keyboard shortcuts and disable it, VNC works much better although I still have lots of problems with it.

Joe

[Yuli Friedman (yulifriedman)]

That fixed it. Thanks!

-Yuli

[Joe Areeda (areeda)]

You're welcome Yuli.

I changed the status to confirmed, I've seen it on multiple machines. There was speculation on the forums that the actual keyboard map it's trying to use has a modifier key on the minimize action that's not available on our machines and gets dropped.