A lot of important functionality is only available from the context menu (F8), e.g. toggling full screen and disconnecting. However it is not apparent that this menu exists, or how to access it.
Fixed upstream by showing a brief hint when connecting: https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/4f0647da6a044f4d82d312a11ea8755d1aa7b63d
> * The client should briefly display a hint that the context menu can > be opened by pressing a specific key > Works as expected. > * A release note about the notice should be written > Done
As noted in the release notes, the 4.10.0 version of the ThinLinc client displays a hint now upon connecting to the corresponding thinlinc server. In general, this is a nice feature. We are, however, using a kiosk based system for our users where ThinClients can be used to connect to the server. As such, users are not meant to use the F8, etc. shortcut to move out of fullscreen-mode, etc. Therefore we have set "OPTIONS_POPUP_KEY=" in our tlclient.conf (to an empty string) to disable the popup key completely. In that case the popup key hint should IMHO be disabled and not show up at all. So please consider fixing this in a future thinlinc client version or is there any other possibility to disable the popup key hint altogether for such situations?!?
(In reply to comment #4) > As noted in the release notes, the 4.10.0 version of the ThinLinc client > displays a hint now upon connecting to the corresponding thinlinc server. In > general, this is a nice feature. We are, however, using a kiosk based system > for our users where ThinClients can be used to connect to the server. As such, > users are not meant to use the F8, etc. shortcut to move out of > fullscreen-mode, etc. Therefore we have set "OPTIONS_POPUP_KEY=" in our > tlclient.conf (to an empty string) to disable the popup key completely. In that > case the popup key hint should IMHO be disabled and not show up at all. > > So please consider fixing this in a future thinlinc client version or is there > any other possibility to disable the popup key hint altogether for such > situations?!? Hi Jens, Apologies for the late response. I agree with you that the hint shouldn't be displayed if no hotkey is selected. I created bug 7411 for this.
