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AKostur
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No ctrl character passthrough in the Web Client

OK, ran into another web client problem this morning.  Ctrl-C isn't being passed through to the VM when using the web client's console application.   Tried Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Z, and Ctrl-D (to invoke the usual Linux behaviours with those keystrokes) and the VM doesn't react at all.  Typing normal characters works, so the keyboard is being appropriately trapped by the VM, but no ctrl characters.    Running Chrome on Mac OS X, vCenter 5.5.  What magic is required to get the ctrl characters working again?

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Unspoken
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I can confirm that this issue is still not fixed in ESXi 6.5 under Firefox. I am hitting Control + W and this is closing by firefox tab.

Web client is an absolute piece of crap...

Regs.

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shobbs
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I have the same problem with InterSystems Caché running under Windows 7 under Fusion 8.5.3 running on my Mac.  However, my friend down the hall with a similar configuration does not have the problem.  The major difference is that I run Cygwin on my Windows system to give me Unix capabilities so I can run bash scripts on Windows.  The lack of Ctrl-C pass through occurs in an InterSystems supplied Windows console application that provides terminal access to Caché.  If I directly connect to a Caché job from a cmd.exe window I get the same behavior where the Ctrl-C is not passed through to the running application but instead cmd.exe sees the ctrl-C and terminates my applicaition.

The reason why I suspect Cygwin is involved is that if I run a Caché session from a Cygwin bash shell window then things are much worse.  The Caché csession application is not getting Ctrl-C passed through so that bash kills the application if a ctrl-C is typed but now the of the graphic characters that I type seem not to be recognized.  The prompt string is correctly printed in the Cygwin bash window but after that if I type a command line followed by a return then that command is just echoed back in the bash window but it is not executed by the Caché application.

Are any of the other people with this Ctrl-C problem using Cygwin on the Windows system?

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vish_ux
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Even in 2018 I am facing this issue.  Still not fixed. Web-client is nothing but absolute crap.