Can not send 'Ctrl+Alt+Del'

thanks for your report.

I'm sorry, can someone explain how this bug is labelled 'low' importance.
This is fundamental to a VNC program.

changing the importance wouldn't make a big difference for it, rather a patch would do it, feel free to provide one if it's a fundamental feature for you, thanks you.

+1 (Started a duplicate bug so I'll just dump this in here) Upgraded to Hardy 8.04b and I have realised that tsclient is no longer the default vnc client. There is a feature bug in vinagre that developers should know about. In VNC to send special keys (such as ctrl-alt-del) to the remote system, you need to press F8 and select that option in the VNC menu, vinagre does not allow this which is a decline more than an improvement in usability (compared to tsclient).

I'm baffled by this as well. How are users going to connect to remote machines? A good windows server (oxymoron?) will require ctrl-alt-del to login, i'm not stuck. Will install other vnc's (tightvnc?) to get around this. Either way for the good of ubuntu, the default vnc mechanism should not have a fatal flaw like this. Long live Ubuntu!

Is there anyway to go back to using tsclient in ubuntu 8.04 for VNC instead of vinagre. Thanks

Without being able to do Ctrl+Alt+Del I am unable to use vinagre when dialling into work, I am now going back to windows or another vnc application for working from home.

Ctrl+Alt+Del is a fundamental feature of a vnc viewer, without out this feature vinagre is not fit for purpose and should not have been shipped with Hardy as standard.

This is very high importance for me and many others.

It might be superfluous to post another one of these comments, so feel free to beat me ;)! I ask for such a fundamental feature as well, as I am currently unable to connect to my M$ machines via Vinagre. Thanks in advance!

André

I want to apologize for my post, as this problem is only valid on my laptop, where I am experiencing Bug #217685 (seems to be an issue with the keyboard of my laptop). My workstation accepts Ctrl+Alt+Del after a single click in the vnc window, so logging on to a locked M$ box is no problem at all.

Greetings
Waldgeist

Please find attached the debdiff. I have created a patch from upstream svn commit. The fix also introduces 2 new strings.

Changing state to 'Confirmed' as debdiff is attached.

Your debdiff seems to be text/html, so it's hard to read... could you make it text/plain?

@Emilio,

It is launchpad that is causing the problem. This is weird. I have never seen this problem before.
If you use wget to download then you will get debdiff in text/plain format.

Onkar Shinde wrote:
> @Emilio,
>
> It is launchpad that is causing the problem. This is weird. I have never seen this problem before.
> If you use wget to download then you will get debdiff in text/plain format.
>

Ah, I see. I've looked at it, but this needs approval from the SRU team, so
let's wait for their input.

Intrepid is open now, so the fix should be uploaded/tested first there before upload to hardy. Please re-subscribe ubuntu-sru and nominate this bug for release once this is done.

Please also provide the information described in <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#head-a7a957d3d691c2754ba24e5085481107ed703b49>.

Steve,

I discussed this issue already with seb128 on #ubuntu-devel and he said it was ok to get this fix in SRU before it is done in intrepid. Following are the two major reasons.
1. The bug is a regression from last Ubuntu version. xvncviewer had an option to send Ctrl + Alt + Del to server and this is necessary for Windows login when connected over VNC.
2. The fix will not be available in Vinagre release in GNOME 2.22.2. Instead it will be available in 2.23.x. So it will not get in Hardy with the sync/merge of GNOME 2.22.2.

Apart from this, should we really expect anyone to test Intrepid so early in the development cycle, assuming that vinagre will be updated with this fix within a month?

Please let me know what you think.

Onkar Shinde wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I discussed this issue already with seb128 on #ubuntu-devel and he said it was ok to get this fix in SRU before it is done in intrepid.

We could also upload the same patch to intrepid first, then do the SRU.

Jonh, where's this fixed upstream? in 2.23.1, or will it be in 2.23.2?

Em Sáb, 2008-05-03 às 10:39 +0000, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort escreveu:

> Jonh, where's this fixed upstream? in 2.23.1, or will it be in 2.23.2?

2.23.2

Cheers,
--
Jonh Wendell
www.bani.com.br

Fixed upstream.

Easy : F11 then ctrl+alt+del
But is a BUG =======

Thank you Benjamin. That is so not obvious and _very_ useful for connecting to Windows servers and VMs.

Actually, F11 makes no difference. Mouse focus is the trick.

The natural thing doesn't work. You're using the remote desktop, it has mouse focus, and you type ctrl+alt+del - that doesn't work and brings up Gnome's power menu (e.g.).

The trick is to have the mouse _not_ focused on the remote display. Then press ctrl+alt which switches to focus, then (still holding ctrl+alt) press del, and the remote display gets it.

It's not obvious. Fwiw, Microsoft VirtualPC has a menu option "Send Ctrl-Alt-Del" which makes sense. Something tells me the Vinagre developers didn't log in to Windows machines much :-)

Thanks Jamie!

That did it. So weird though. Guess its a good work around for now.

2.23.4 is already in Intrepid

ctrl+alt+del does not work for me with vinagre 3.2.1 on Ubuntu 11.10.

Is there a way to replace vinagre with tsclient? ctrl+alt+del was working fine with tsclient.