VNC works, kind of

Hello,

I have Xvnc running on a Debian Woody box with Gnome 2.2 installed.
Xvnc is running in a separate X session, so there is a local X session
on :0 and the VNC session on :1. Connecting from other computers via
xvncviewer basically works, but:

- Some fonts only work in the local X session, whereas in VNC I get
little squares for characters
- gnome-terminal only works in the local X session, but when I run it
in VNC, it shows up for a moment and then exits without an error
message.
- Copy-and-paste between the VNC session and a client computer doesn't
work. It used to work when the VNC server was still running Windows.

Has anybody had similar experiences with Xvnc?
Thanks,

Peter

Peter Klein <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have Xvnc running on a Debian Woody box with Gnome 2.2 installed.
> Xvnc is running in a separate X session, so there is a local X session
> on :0 and the VNC session on :1. Connecting from other computers via
> xvncviewer basically works, but:
>
> - Some fonts only work in the local X session, whereas in VNC I get
> little squares for characters

You may need to tell your font-server to service requests for fonts on
:1 as well.

> - gnome-terminal only works in the local X session, but when I run it
> in VNC, it shows up for a moment and then exits without an error
> message.

Try starting gnome-terminal from an xterm. That way you might see the
error message.

> - Copy-and-paste between the VNC session and a client computer doesn't
> work. It used to work when the VNC server was still running Windows.

Pass. What vnc package are you using? normal vnc, tight-vnc, ...

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Thanks, Cameron. The font problem was because there was no font server
entry in /etc/vnc.conf, only a set of local font paths. Calling
vncserver with "-fp unix/:7100" solved the problem. The problem with
VNC went away once I installed autocutsel
(http://lepton.fr/tools/autocutsel/). Gnome-terminal apparently has
issues with XFT. I now use VTE_USE_XFT2=0, as in "VTE_USE_XFT2=0
vncserver <args>" and now gnome-terminal works in VNC.

Peter


Cameron Kerr <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Peter Klein <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have Xvnc running on a Debian Woody box with Gnome 2.2 installed.
> > Xvnc is running in a separate X session, so there is a local X session
> > on :0 and the VNC session on :1. Connecting from other computers via
> > xvncviewer basically works, but:
> >
> > - Some fonts only work in the local X session, whereas in VNC I get
> > little squares for characters
>
> You may need to tell your font-server to service requests for fonts on
> :1 as well.
>
> > - gnome-terminal only works in the local X session, but when I run it
> > in VNC, it shows up for a moment and then exits without an error
> > message.
>
> Try starting gnome-terminal from an xterm. That way you might see the
> error message.
>
> > - Copy-and-paste between the VNC session and a client computer doesn't
> > work. It used to work when the VNC server was still running Windows.
>
> Pass. What vnc package are you using? normal vnc, tight-vnc, ...