The OP informed me that this issue was apparently due to missing Xfce packages. It was not related to TurboVNC.
On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 7:17:00 PM UTC-6 DRC wrote: > I sincerely apologize for the delay in responding to this. This year has > been really nuts, and it's only been within the past week that I have > finally been able to pop the stack on TurboVNC issues. > > Wacom tablet support is implemented in different ways on different client > platforms. For Linux/Un*x clients, we use the GII RFB extension to forward > all relevant X Input devices in kind from the client to the server (that's > what the GII extension was designed to do.) For Mac clients, however, > there is no analogue to X Input. Tablet support is integrated into the > O/S, and the TurboVNC Viewer doesn't know whether a particular tablet > device is available until it receives a "proximity" event that tells it > that the tablet device has entered the proximity of the viewer window. > Thus, the Mac TurboVNC Viewer mocks up two GII devices for the Wacom stylus > and eraser and always creates those devices on the server via GII, > regardless of whether a tablet is actually present or in use on the > client. The presence of those devices in the TurboVNC session is normal, > but obviously the behavior you're observing isn't. > Please try running the viewer from the Terminal using > > /opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncviewer -loglevel 150 > > That will print any GII (ExtInputDevice) messages to the console. You > should see some initial output from creating both the stylus and eraser > devices, but you should not see any additional ExtInputDevice messages as > you move or click the mouse. If you do see those messages, then that > probably means that your mouse is being incorrectly detected as a tablet, > which is a bug. > > I also just pushed a commit that allows GII to manually be disabled by > setting JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Dturbovnc.gii=0" in the environment. The > latest pre-release builds (https://turbovnc.org/DeveloperInfo/PreReleases) > should have that fix. Disabling GII will at least tell you whether that's > the cause of the issue. If it's not, then I have no other ideas. > On 10/19/20 1:07 PM, qwofford wrote: > > I noticed that in XFCE sessions, the mouse cursor is not present in my > TurboVNC client view. The TurboVNC server produces the following log output: > > 06/10/2020 10:19:24 Client supports GII version 1 > 06/10/2020 10:19:24 GII Device Create: Stylus > 06/10/2020 10:19:24 GII device ID = 1 > 06/10/2020 10:19:24 GII Device Create: Eraser > 06/10/2020 10:19:24 GII device ID = 2 > > Which leads me to believe the mouse is not being identified correctly. I > am connecting from a TurboVNC 2.2.5 client on OSX, with a Logitech G500 > mouse (details of the mouse are attached). I noticed my xorg.conf has > references to a mouse, so I posted this in the VirtualGL group originally, > but I was informed that this config section is not relevant to IO in a > combined TurboVNC/VirtualGL solution. The server is running on Centos8, > with TVNC v2.2.5. The session desktop is configured to use XFCE4. > > Note: I am also getting an "XFCE PolicyKit Agent" error when the TVNC > desktop connects. I suspect this is a different problem, but mention here > for the sake of completeness. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TurboVNC User Discussion/Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/turbovnc-users/bab3167b-15de-4603-9ed3-6c1f117a85b0n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/turbovnc-users/bab3167b-15de-4603-9ed3-6c1f117a85b0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboVNC User Discussion/Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/turbovnc-users/4b0ab089-8dfc-40d5-96c1-c93070d0688an%40googlegroups.com.
