[X2go-dev] X2GO Ubuntu 10.10 on Linux and Mac clients "d" key

[Gerry Reno]

On 10/15/2010 11:04 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 10:25 -0400, Neil W. Hunt wrote:
>    
>> Hello,
>> I am testing out X2go with Ubuntu 10.10. Everything works great and we
>> are leaning towards rolling this out to our entire development
>> organization if we can solve a few outstanding issues. Right now, the
>> biggest one we're facing is that whenever I type 'd' it hides all open
>> applications and shows my desktop. Every other key seems to work just
>> fine, as does sessions suspend/resume, audio, performance, etc. but
>> obviously this is still unusable to us with the 'd' key being
>> unavailable. I have tested this on the Linux, Mac, and Windows X2go
>> clients and this is only the behavior on the Linux and Mac clients,
>> not on the Windows client - the 'd' key works fine on Windows x2go
>> client. Any thoughts?
>>
>> FWIW, On Ubuntu 9.10 using x2go, I don't have this issue with
>> Mac/Linux clients. However, we don't want to confine ourselves to 9.10
>> by choosing x2go.
>>      
> That's really weird.  It sounds like the<alt><ctl>  is stuck.
> <alt><ctl>d is the magic key sequence to minimize all windows and expose
> the desktop.  I have no idea why that would be a problem in 10.10 and
> not 9.10 - John
>
>    

About the only time I've seen that type of problem is when using a KVM 
switch in the server room to access the consoles.  Sometimes the keys 
like Shift/Ctrl/Alt can get 'stuck' on.  Other than that we haven't seen 
this problem with Ubuntu but we're using 10.04 not 10.10.

Regards,
Gerry