Why does VNC eat certain characters?

Posted by TK Kocheran on Super User See other posts from Super User or by TK Kocheran
Published on 2010-12-29T23:39:33Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 23:56 UTC
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I often use VNC to connect to my desktop upstairs using a laptop downstairs over my home network. I tunnel the VNC connection via SSH.

The problem I keep running into is that I'll attempt to type a ! or a : or even a captial A and it will come across the wire as a 1, ;, or a respectively. Is this something I can fix? It's really REALLY annoying while one is programming to have to pop open character map and find a colon and copy/paste it in each time.

Running Ubuntu 10.04 upstairs, Linux Mint 10 downstairs.

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