x11vnc tips fixes and weirdness
I've encountered a few issues when using x11vnc to remotely connect to and existing runing X session.
Here they are and the fixes for them:
Server crashes with caught XIO error
Add the -xnodamage option [1]
The keys stop repeating
Run xset r or enable the -repeat option [2]
The () bracket keys aren't passed to KVM
If you connect to a machine running KVM and open a virt-viewer session the ( and ) keys aren't sent to the guest.
Add -skip_keycodes $(grep -E '<I[12]..> =' /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev | awk '{print $3}' | tr '\n' , | sed -e 's/;//g' -e 's/,$//')
to the x11vnc command [3]