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Sending “Ctrl-Alt-Del” command to VNC client under Gnome

November 8, 2007 - 5 comments

The problem : you want to send the “Ctrl-Alt-Del” command to a remote VNC server to unlock a Windows session, but you are under Gnome and all it does is opening a window with Gnome session options (lock session, restart, etc.)

How to unlock a Windows session : Press “Shift-Ctrl-Alt-Del”.

May seem obvious, but it tooks me a few minutes to figure out.

Also, vncviewer.exe runs perfectly fine using Wine, probably better than the VNC clients available under Ubuntu.

Comments

cyber

November 20, 2007 - 9:17

I work with VNC(W$) and this option is with “F8″.

Chris Smart

December 13, 2007 - 2:36

Thanks Sébastien!

I tried Shift+ALT+Delete, Shift+CTRL+Delete and everything in-between, but didn’t think to press all four together :)

-c

oscarB

March 28, 2008 - 22:09

Thanks Sébastien!!!!!!!!!

MixFighter

April 16, 2009 - 13:31

SanX for help

DanyC

July 7, 2009 - 11:10

I’m using Centos 5.2 and it worked using F8.

Cheers.

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