[Sugar-devel] Replacing Xephyr with VNC

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 18:44, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As many of you are probably aware we're having considerable trouble [1,2]
> with Xephyr, the X server currently used in sugar-emulator.
> I've finally managed to get VNC working for sugar-emulator on all of the
> distros supported by sugar-jhbuild and would like these changes to be merged
> in mainline. [3]

Has anybody else had a chance to try this out? Would like to merge it
but I think more than one people should have tried it.

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Dependencies added:
> * Debian/Ubuntu: vnc4server, xvnc4viewer
> * Fedora: tigervnc, tigervnc-server
> * Ubuntu: lsb_release (for triggering a Ubuntu-specific workaround)
>
> Dependencies removed:
> * Xephyr
>
>
> User experience changes:
> + non-US keyboards are working properly
> * F8 is mapped to VNC menu (can send plain F8, but not <modifier>+F8)
> * VNC grabs the keyboard in full screen mode
>   + no window manager interference
>   - no way to switch away from VNC (other switching to window mode using F8
> menu)
>
>
> Other changes:
> + SL#17 [4] fixed
>
>
> Tested on:
> * Debian squeeze (for several months)
> * Ubuntu Intrepid
> * Ubuntu Jaunty
> * Fedora 12
>
>
> [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/342
> [2] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/310
> [3] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1659
> [4] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/17
>
> CU Sascha
>
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