The issue was that I was using VNC (http://www.realvnc.com/) which provides a platform-independent desktop. I assume VNC degrades the graphics for performance reasons. On the other hand if I run fvwm2, it looks the same regardless of whether I am using VNC or a straight X server.
I then tried Enlightenment with Exceed (X terminal software) and Enlightenment came up properly, but very slowly.
I guess all that eye candy is hard to push through a VPN going through residential grade DSL.
I wonder if there is a low-bandwidth theme for Enlightenment, or if I should just settle for a lightweight WM, such as fvwm2 for remote use.
-Chris
Chris Wolf wrote:
I don't have root access on the server I use, so I built e16 from scratch, as well as the dependencies.
For e16, I used the version labeled "e16-0.16.8-0.01".
For each dependency (freetext, imlib2) and e16 itself, I ran "configure" with
--prefx=<my local dir> Let's just call it "~/local".
I put "~/local/bin" on my PATH and "~/local/lib" on my LD_LIBRARY_PATH
When E comes up, it provides window decoration and menus appear, however they are unreadable due to the very "grainy" appearance. The desktop is also appears in the default grey pattern that one sees before a WM is running. There appears to be one or two utility windows running (one might the desktop magnifier, or whatever it's called.).
I tried various permutations of full and relative paths to a theme via the "-t" option, to no effect.
I tried running with "-v" to see if there were any error messages; there were none.
Is there a logging facility? How can I get this working?
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