MOL thru VNC -- Command-Key equivalent?

Jason Simpson mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:50:07 -0800 (PST)


Hi there, I'm new. I'm working with MOL under Debian/unstable.

I finally got MOL up and running on my dual 604/180MHz equipped Umax
J700. At first, I got it oldworld-booting the actual OS that's on the 120
meg bootstrap partition I left on the harddisk, then I proceeded to try
and get MacOS 9.1 to install onto an image file. This was rather
frustrating as the Mac OS Installer refused to see the image file as an
installable disk. According to Disk First Aid, it thinks the disk image
file is a floppy disk. I thought that had something to do with the
problem, but it turned out, after a lot of searching of the list archives,
that there's a workaround: you have to set the cdrom device as -ro and not
as -cd in order to get the installer to see the disk image file as
installable. Whew. So now I've installed 9.1, upgraded to 9.2.1, and
downloaded and installed 9.2.2. Seems to be working great.

My video card just plain doesn't work right under Linux. (It's an IMS
TwinTurbo 128 with 2MB and provides either an unstable signal to the
monitor, or in other modes appears as if i have double-vision.) Luckily,
MOL features VNC video! This is perfect for my application anyway, because
this box will likely be stuffed in a closet somewhere.

Unfortunately, there's one problem with the VNC support: the client I'll
be using to access the MacOS session is a Windows-based PC, and thus lacks
a Command key. I've previously used ChromiVNC to access actual MacOS
machines, and it has a VNC-server option to emulate Command keypresses
with combined Control-Alt or other keypresses. The instability I
encountered is what moved me toward a MOL-based solution, since its VNC
support is native.

So, my question is: is there any way to get MOL's VNC server to accept
some other keypress as a Command key?

I've tried messing about with startmol --keyconfig, but that always dies
with an Assertion failure when I try to save my changes.

	Thanks.
	-jrs