Just so I fully understand the issue, what would you normally do if the WM
crashes? Is there a reasonable way to recover in that case?
I am not opposed to reverting, as long as the -fg switch is kept. A user could
get the same behavior by doing vncserver -fg &.
On Mar 11, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Robert Goley <rago...@rdasys.com> wrote:
> Just to throw my 2 cents in as well... I would prefer this behavior be
> reverted as well. I know it will end up causing us problems if for no other
> reason than window managers crash and we don't want everything else in our
> session to be taken down with them....
>
> Robert
>
>
> On 03/11/2011 06:57 AM, Adam Tkac wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:07:17AM -0600, DRC wrote:
>>> http://www.virtualgl.org/DeveloperInfo/TigerVNCPreReleases
>>>
>>> -- Windows TLS refresh issue fixed (I hope)
>>> -- New vncserver -fg switch for running TigerVNC in grid environments
>>> -- vncserver now automatically kills Xvnc whenever the window manager
>>> running in the VNC session is exited
>> I'm quite reserved about this behavior, I would rather not kill the
>> Xvnc when WM exits.
>>
>> Default .vnc/xstartup (generated by vncserver) file has following
>> lines:
>> ...
>> xsetroot -solid grey
>> xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
>> twm &
>>
>> So WM is actually successfully started but patched vncserver kills Xvnc
>> immediately.
>>
>> In my opinion vast majority of VNC users start WM on the background
>> (with the "&" character in the end of the script) and this change will
>> break all existing configurations.
>>
>> In my opinion this change should be reverted.
>>
>> Regards, Adam
>>
>>> -- vncserver will no longer prompt user to create a VNC password if VNC
>>> auth is not used
>>> -- TLS support incorporated into Windows Visual C++ 32-bit build, so it
>>> isn't necessary to use a separate installer for TLS support (note: Win64
>>> support for TLS is still not there, because GnuTLS does not yet work
>>> cleanly with the LLP64 data model.)
>>>
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