tags 424860 + upstream help
thanks

Hi

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.
> 
> 

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