Q: screen sharing to Linux : xterm problem.
Hi there,
We have a user here at the University of Warwick who uses a mac running Yosemite 10.10 (but I have also seen the problem in 10.9). He is using screen sharing to connect to an Ubuntu Linux server running a VNC server. This works fine until he fires up an xterm, when under certain conditions this will cause the session to stop updating.
Steps to reproduce :
Start xterm, with the mouse pointer over the xterm window, and the xterm window active, start to type, at this point the screen will stop updating. On disconnecting and re-connecting it will be found that any characters typed will have been received by the xterm.
What is even stranger is that if you start the xterm, then click on it's title bar to select it as the active window, but then move the mouse pointer so it is*NOT* over the xterm window, any typed characters appear and the terminal interacts as you would expect.
Is this a known bug? and is there a work around or fix for it. It seems to be something to do with the xterm attempting to hide the mouse cursor.
It should be noted that connecting to the same machine using a vnc client on my windows box does not have the same problem which suggests it's something to do with the interaction between the Linux vnc server and the Mac.
Cheers.
Phill.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Posted on Feb 1, 2016 1:22 AM