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I'm using the tightvnc vncviewer to connect to a Windows10 server from my Linux machine running Ubuntu. Now I wish had the option to switch between aplications on the Windows machine using alt-tab over vnc. I've found a plethora of articles describing this on the web but they all seem to refer to the vncviewer that's running on Windows and I did not find any info for the Linux version of it. Can anyone help?

I also started a separate thread in the group: comp.os.linux.networking (subject "can vncviewer forward alt key to server for application switch?") - - I will make sure that answers are synchronized between the two separate threads!

stdcerr
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  • Is `tightvnc` a hard requirement? This works out of the box with tigervnc's `vncviewer` (while in full-screen mode). – Hermann Sep 22 '19 at 21:44
  • @Hermann no, I'm just using `tightnc` because that comes with `Ubuntu`. I'll give it a try with *tigervnc*. Thanks! You may want to move this to an answer that I'll happily accept if it works for me, otherwise I'll report back! – stdcerr Sep 22 '19 at 23:24
  • This did workj, yes! I downloaded the sources from github, compiled, installed and started the new `vncviewer` binary and taskj switching with `ALT-TAB` works just fine now! Excellent, exactly hat I was looking for! Thank you Herman oder vielleicht Dankeschön! (Thank you in German - just a guess!) – stdcerr Sep 23 '19 at 01:43

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Yes

This works out of the box with tigervnc's vncviewer (while in full-screen mode).

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