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Linux Gurus .. i need Help

cganesh75

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I am gonna try to and explain the situation and the problem that i am seeing as best as i can. i am a linux user, not a linux expert.

at work, we have redhat linux machines and i login to one of them through VNC. i have tried different machines and different VNC programs/clients. I see the problem in all of them...

here is the problem..
In an xterm or vi or vim, many times (often but not always), i get key repeats.. for example when i want to close vim, when i press shift + :, i get the character and then the shift key releases and i get ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; printed forever. same goes for ctrl + anykey, shift+ anykey.. i am not pressing those keys that often...
i have replaced keyboards, i have logged into vnc from home. still the same issue. definitely the problem is in the VNCserver setup or linux machine itself. I cant say i have tried that often, but i never encountered this issue when i try to telnet into the machine.

anybody seen this issue? any fix? dont ask me to update or change any admin stuff coz obviously i dont have admin rights... but i could suggest the admin to try some stuff for me.
 
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I haven't used VNC or other remote desktop software for Linux for quite some time, but when I did I was quite happy with FreeNX. Maybe ask the admins about that.
 
I prefer cygwin myself if I have to be on a windows system... Also, something else could be responsible for some of the "multiple" repeats... In vi or vim, hitting a number before doing a command will make it do that command however many times the number that you entered... So for instance, if you typed "10ii" and hit enter, it would insert 19 "i"'s into your document (the first "i" would enter into insert mode, followed by 1 more "i" from the first instance of the command, and then add 18 more "i"'s from the next 9 repeats).
 
Fallen Kell said:
I prefer cygwin myself if I have to be on a windows system... Also, something else could be responsible for some of the "multiple" repeats... In vi or vim, hitting a number before doing a command will make it do that command however many times the number that you entered... So for instance, if you typed "10ii" and hit enter, it would insert 19 "i"'s into your document (the first "i" would enter into insert mode, followed by 1 more "i" from the first instance of the command, and then add 18 more "i"'s from the next 9 repeats).
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its possible. but i get the same thing in xterm also. if want to type filename_x it will do filename_-------------------------------------------------
 
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