Ctrl-key conflict with cursor highlighting

[swampler]

This is just reporting a problem with NX client running on CentOS 7 (Mate desktop).  If the client has enabled cursor-highlighting on Ctrl key press then the NX client won’t see any presses of the Ctrl key.  So things like ^C, ^D, etc. don’t work – the NX server only sees “c”, “d”, etc.  The workaround is to turn off cursor-highlighting on the Linux client.  NX client and server  are both from NoMachine Workstation-5.1.54-3.x86_64. Both client and server are CentOS 7 running Mate on dual-screen displays.

[Tor]

This is an accessibility feature and as such, we would like to support it. The problem is that it is implemented in a way that makes difficult for an application to continue to handle correctly keyboard events. There are many other apps with the same problem, and we guess this may be one of the reasons why the feature is not available on some recent desktop managers.
The keyboard grabbing option, configurable in the Input menu, can work around this problem when the NoMachine client runs fullscreen even if it doesn’t allow the cursor to highlight. Unluckily it doesn’t help in window mode.

[Tor]

Hi again. We’ve slightly changed the keyboard grabbing option, so that now it can work around your issue also when the NoMachine client is windowed. Would that be a good solution for you? If you would like to test it, please contact us at forum[at]nomachine[dot]com.

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