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On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:26:35AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > >This seems to be (after some searching) a quite wide-spread problem, but > >no solutions are > >available. The same problem happen on Suse, Slackware and some other > >distros: > > > >http://osdir.com/ml/network.tight-vnc.general/2004-12/msg00016.html > >http://www.spinics.net/lists/vnc/msg09018.html > >http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2004-December/048458.html > >http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2003-June/039698.html > > > >The same problem seem to happen on tightvncserver and the old vnc3 version > >as well so it is > >likely to be a very old problem. Well it is an old problem as it has been > >reported already in > >2003... > > > >The problem is not in Eclipse per see, but Eclipse probably have some way > >to handle pixmaps > >which vnc do not handle very well. > > > >The problem also happens when using Xnest so it is likely to be some X > >problem, and not really > >in vnc code. > > > > That's a shame, really. Eclipse is the first program I came across > that doesn't work under VNC. I'd have expected Gimp / Inkscape / VLC > to be more of a problem yet those work fine. I agree. > >If you want me to help debugging this further, I can give you instructions > >on how to use gdb > >However I'm not that good at gdb myself. I tend to use ddd that is a > >graphical shell around > >gdb (from where you can actually see the gdb commands). > > I'm happy to help of course, but seeing as the problem seems to be > reproducible to some degree maybe getting someone on the case who > knows more than I do might be beneficial. It'd save the handholding > round-trip-time. I agree, the problem is that I do not really know who to contact about it. The problem have been rised on different vnc mailinglists a number of times (see above) without any good solution. Regards, // Ola > Regards, > > C. > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://opalsys.net/ UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]