X11vnc, how to enable shift-key

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The shift key won't work through VNC to my Ubuntu server except for the characters ÅÄÖ. I'm using UTF-8 and sv_SE as locale. I find no options or settings that I can set nor do I find any information on google about people with similar problems.

Anyone here that might know what's wrong?
Connecting to Ubuntu 10.04 from Windows 7

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The problem seemed to be with x11vnc, the server that I run.

To enable the shift-keys I used the argument -nomodtweak when starting x11vnc. This enabled the shift-keys for me!

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I don't think you want x11vnc. x11vnc is used for sharing existing X sessions through vnc.

You probably want vncserver.

A quick guide to starting up:

$ vncpasswd
Password:
Verify:
$ vncserver :1

Then launch vncviewer on the remote node, and connect to display 1.

Ubuntu – x11vnc working in Ubuntu 10.10

You don't have an X display to export. Look for X*.log in /var/logs. This should show why x is not starting.

Do you have a gmd configured to listen on TCP? If not it won't spawn a server for you. I found vnc4server worked best for me. I start it out of xinetd using differnt ports for different resulutions using configuration like. This gives me a login to gnome on my system.

service Xvnc-3
{
        disable = no
        port = 5903
        socket_type = stream
        log_type = syslog daemon
        log_on_success = PID HOST EXIT DURATION
        log_on_failure = HOST ATTEMPT
        protocol = tcp
        wait = no
        user = nobody
        server = /usr/bin/Xvnc
        server_args = -inetd -geometry 1280x800 -depth 16 -query localhost -once -SecurityTypes none -extension XFIXES -desktop X-1280x800
}

In /etc/gdm/custom.conf I have a few changes including

[xdmcp]
DisplaysPerHost=10
Enable=true
HonorIndirect=false

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