[Sugar-devel] Replacing Xephyr with VNC

[Dan Krejsa]

Hi Sascha and  Tomeu,

I've tried this briefly on Karmic Koala Ubuntu and have not encountered any
problems.
The keyboard mappings seem to work fine.

Thanks!

- Dan

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:

> 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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