Keys do not autorepeat with x11vnc server

[nsinik]

Keys do not autorepeat when using tigervnc viewer 1.3.1-6.3.1(opensuse 13.2) with x11vnc 0.9.13-7.1.2.
Tightvnc works OK.
The issue is reproducible.
Regards
Nick Sinik

[CendioOssman]

Does it work with other VNC servers? One guess is that x11vnc doesn't work correctly with the detectable key repeat that TigerVNC sends.

[nsinik]

I see.
I tested the latest versions of tightvnc and realvnc viewers and they work OK with x11vnc.

[CendioOssman]

I don't think either of those implement key repeat in a good way though. At least not their Linux clients.

[CendioOssman]

I've verified this with x11vnc from Fedora 20 here. And with some debug logs in TigerVNC I can verify that we are sending the key presses. So this is a bug/misfeature in x11vnc and TigerVNC is working as intended.

[yingshaoxo]

But they still keep that bug alive.

Can you guys fix it?

[CendioOssman]

Sorry, no. It would break things for other servers.

[Martii]

For posterity here... x11vnc -repeat may help... does here so far on multiple remotes.

[StefanHoutzager]

Indeed command=x11vnc -repeat -forever -display :1 proved to be the solution, one of your engineers helped me out before. See StefanHoutzager/elixir-dev-anywhere-docker@4305e1a#diff-8466346a9df6610ab4098566eeb71681

[cavernico]

For posterity here... x11vnc -repeat may help... does here so far on multiple remotes.

works fine here

[Kamilake]

I can't believe that option isn't the default

[JustRedTTG]

Is there a way to configure this or set it in the GUI?

[tux2bsd]

I can't believe that option isn't the default

Mind-blowing isn't it...