Mailing List Archive: Why does VNC 3.3.7 on Solaris do one thing and 4.1.3 on Linux not do that?

Hello!
I have here two systems. One is a Solaris 10 from March 2005
installation on an UltraSPARC 5(10) system, and the other is a
Slackware-12.1.0 system on Intel.

The Solaris one is running 3.3.7 that was packaged by themselves (Sun)
and can present me with both an xterm screen and an rxvt terminal
screen. The Slackware-12.1 system is running 4.1.3 that was collected
from the RealVNC site sometime ago, and was translated from the
delivered rpm file.

Both present me with the default twm screen manager and an xterm upon
launching the viewer. This viewer always works no matter if its
running on Windows Seven or Linux or Solaris.

However I only get the necessary rxvt terminal on Solaris and 3.3.7.
It causes VNC to complain regarding colors that it does not know about
certain colors and causes a failed error code of -5 on 4.1.3 on
Slackware-12.1. Incidentally this Linux system is wearing the XORG
release common to Slackware from that time period. I believe it was
6.5.

However running 4.1.3 of VNC on a Slackware-11.0 system causes
everything to work properly. It has been suggested that the problem
might be inherent to X instead of VNC but I am open to suggestions
from the community.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com
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On 28-6-2011 18:34, Gregg Levine wrote:
> I have here two systems. One is a Solaris 10 from March 2005
> installation on an UltraSPARC 5(10) system, and the other is a
> Slackware-12.1.0 system on Intel.
>
> The Solaris one is running 3.3.7 that was packaged by themselves (Sun)
> and can present me with both an xterm screen and an rxvt terminal
> screen. The Slackware-12.1 system is running 4.1.3 that was collected
> from the RealVNC site sometime ago, and was translated from the
> delivered rpm file.
>
> Both present me with the default twm screen manager and an xterm upon
> launching the viewer. This viewer always works no matter if its
> running on Windows Seven or Linux or Solaris.
>
> However I only get the necessary rxvt terminal on Solaris and 3.3.7.
> It causes VNC to complain regarding colors that it does not know about
> certain colors and causes a failed error code of -5 on 4.1.3 on
> Slackware-12.1. Incidentally this Linux system is wearing the XORG
> release common to Slackware from that time period. I believe it was
> 6.5.
>
> However running 4.1.3 of VNC on a Slackware-11.0 system causes
> everything to work properly. It has been suggested that the problem
> might be inherent to X instead of VNC but I am open to suggestions
> from the community.
>

As far as I know the above setup, the vnc-server is a script that starts
the binary `Xvnc`. This is a genuine X-11 server, that can be configured
as any other X11 server. Hence, walk your way trough the vnc-server
script and see what options are used at the Xvnc binary.

Also keep in mind that Xvnc 3.x implements an older version of X11 than
Xvnc 4.x. And in the end, the Xvnc binary you are using can be compiled
to use less resources or to provide more features.

Corné

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