Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 244533
Mouse control lost while using full screen vnc and xscreensaver start
Last modified: 2010-03-18 11:51:21 EDT
Description of problem: While using full screen vncviewer, if I walk away long enough for the client host (the host running vncviewer, not the host actually serving the vnc desktop) system's screensaver to start, when I return I can no longer use the mouse (if fails to show on screen). Keyboard control still works in the full screen vnc session. However, the only way to get mouse back is a complete kill (ctrl-alt-backspace) of the client's X server instance. Logging into the client from another system and killing the vncviewer process (TERM and KILL) do not restore the mouse. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vnc-4.0-11, xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.14 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fire up vncviewer to vncserver on other box. 2. Enable full screen 3. Wait until xscreensaver kicks in on the client
This is very old problem (bug #106552). It's hard make nice fix. Adam
As RHEL-4.9 is last update for RHEL-4 and it is not suitable for new features and should address only security, performance and critical issues, I'm closing that bugzilla WONTFIX. If this functionality is still missing in RHEL-5, feel free to clone that bugzilla against it.