Help with resources (specifically, with vncviewer)

[Kenny McCormack]

BACKGROUND:

I've been using X for decades now, but never really learned about how to
set and use resources. Well, actually, I did, once, decades ago, but I
have forgotten most of it. I know you create a file in some totally
bizarre format, then use "xrdb" to load it into the server.

CURRENT PROBLEM:

I'm using tightvncviewer in fullscreen mode, and want to try the
grabKeyboard option. According to the man page, this can only be set via a
resource (note that most of the things you can set as resources have a
corresponding [and easier to use] command line option, but, alas, not this
one).

Could someone walk me through exactly what I need to do to set this
resource? Thanks.

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[Julian Bradfield]

On 2021-11-05, Kenny McCormack <gaz...@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> I'm using tightvncviewer in fullscreen mode, and want to try the
> grabKeyboard option. According to the man page, this can only be set via a
> resource (note that most of the things you can set as resources have a
> corresponding [and easier to use] command line option, but, alas, not this
> one).

tighvnc is, it says, an Xt client, so it should accept the generic
command-line resource-setting option:

tightvnc -xrm '*.grabKeyboard: true'

Otherwise:

echo '*.grabKeyboard: true' | xrdb -merge

That sets the grabKeyboard resource for all programs; to be specific,
you need to know the program/class name.

If you want to keep it. put
*.grabKeyboard: true
in your .Xresources file (or whatever your distribution uses)

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <slrnso9u4...@zagreb.inf.ed.ac.uk>,

Julian Bradfield <j...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>On 2021-11-05, Kenny McCormack <gaz...@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>> I'm using tightvncviewer in fullscreen mode, and want to try the
>> grabKeyboard option. According to the man page, this can only be set via a
>> resource (note that most of the things you can set as resources have a
>> corresponding [and easier to use] command line option, but, alas, not this
>> one).
>
>tighvnc is, it says, an Xt client, so it should accept the generic
>command-line resource-setting option:
>
>tightvnc -xrm '*.grabKeyboard: true'

Thank you! That did the trick. Adding that to the command line fixed the
underlying problem with vncviewer.

Thanks for the other info as well. Hopefully, I will have an opportunity
to use it again before another 20 years goes by.

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