Pierre Ossman (ThinLinc team)

> I'm not certain there's a good way for the sever to know when the user wants to control cursor position. It's actually rather simple. The server can compare the...

The problem is that your change would only solve the shared case for clients using "view only". If you have a collaborative session you don't want to have to fiddle...

I understand what you are asking for. But I'm saying that I consider that a workaround, not a fix, and a partial one at that. The proper solution IMO is...

It is a hack if the only rationale is to work around bugs, not because there is some trade-off we need the user to decide on. But I've listed my...

I'm a bit confused here as you mention both the side bar and fullscreen. Those two are not connected in any way. Or is it the application rather than noVNC...

In that case we might want to frame this as the general issue of working around browser key bindings?

One thing people could help out with here is providing good examples of other web applications that do this. It is a rather difficult problem to solve, so finding existing...

I assume so. Note that the local system would still grab things though (like Alt+Tab).

Same thing in Firefox. Unfortunately it isn't something we can do ourselves. There is only one way to enter full screen from javascript. :/

Apparently there is some movement on this, at least in the Chrome corner: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Keyboard/lock