[Thinlinc-technical] ThinLinc 4.1.0 beta now available - some feedback

[Andreas v. Heydwolff]

On 2013-07-09 14:31, Peter Åstrand wrote:

Hello Peter,

>> Yes. I do get the degree sign with Shift-^ in Linux and VBox alike, a
>> dead ^ in Linux but nothing when hitting the ^ key in my VBox Windows
>> once or twice, and ^ once and then an "a" only yields a genuine "a".
>
> I see. VirtualBox is indeed a tricky application.

thanks for your interest.

>> possible to get the Sun kbd's F13-F20 keys (and even the sound keys
>> above the numeric pad) working once the problem with the not working
>> layouts is solved? They are very useful for me for shortcuts in KDE.
>
> It should work automatically as long as these keys are recognized by the
> client OS, at least with "normal" Linux applications. ThinLinc will
> automatically allocate keycode/keysym pairs in the remote session for
> unknown symbols.

Will look into this again.

>> About sound:
>>
>>> Since ThinLinc 4.0.0, we are shipping PulseAudio 2.1. In some cases, it
>>> works great, but sometimes it does not.
>>
>> Hm. Debian Wheezy uses 2.0, and I think before TL 4.0 it worked. I never
>> found/took the time though to revert to some TL 3.x.x server as you had
>> suggested in a previous posting.
>
> Actually, it's all about the client. So if you have problems with sound
> in 4.X clients, you can try 3.X clients instead.
>
> Starting with today, old clients are now available for download, see
> http://www.cendio.com/downloads/clients/ .

>
> It's not possible to just replace the "pulseaudio" binary in the client.
> Other things such as the command line arguments have also changed. So
> you need to use a 3.X TL client instead.

Thanks, will try an old client instead. I didn't know it was possible to
combine both a new server and and old client.

Regards,
Andreas