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Hemachandar Aravamuthan

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Mar 16, 2025, 9:52:33 PMMar 16
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I'm using Citrix in a browser, and within it, I have TigerVNC Viewer. During automation, I need to pass Alt+Tab to perform an action in my testing software, but it's causing tab switching instead.

Pierre Ossman

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Mar 17, 2025, 2:17:36 AMMar 17
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It sounds like it is the Citrix web client that is switching away? That
would be a question for a Citrix forum and not here.

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Hemachandar Aravamuthan

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Mar 17, 2025, 3:34:58 AMMar 17
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Through pycharm I'm passing the keys to tigerVNC it is switching the tab instead of performing the key on the machine

Pierre Ossman

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Mar 17, 2025, 3:54:19 AMMar 17
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On 17/03/2025 08:34, Hemachandar Aravamuthan wrote:
> Through pycharm I'm passing the keys to tigerVNC it is switching the tab
> instead of performing the key on the machine
>

It sounds like the key is passed to the browser, if it switching tabs.
In what way have you made sure it passes all the way through to the
TigerVNC viewer?

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Hemachandar Aravamuthan

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Mar 17, 2025, 4:49:25 AMMar 17
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All other commands are functioning properly in the vncviewer, however, the Alt+Tab shortcut is switching between applications. I am using TigerVNC version 1.10.80. Could you kindly confirm if there is any issue with this version?

Pierre Ossman

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Mar 17, 2025, 5:06:49 AMMar 17
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On 17/03/2025 09:49, Hemachandar Aravamuthan wrote:
> All other commands are functioning properly in the vncviewer, however, the
> Alt+Tab shortcut is switching between applications. I am using TigerVNC
> version 1.10.80. Could you kindly confirm if there is any issue with this
> version?
>

That is an old release, and a development version. It likely has many
issues that we've since fixed.

I still doubt an updated version will change anything, though, as
everything in your description points to this being an issue before the
TigerVNC client.
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