"Beerse,_Corni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Damian Skeeles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >> > I have to correct myself here - I found that the "-pn" option >> was in fact working, but for some reason the vnc processes >> weren't displaying when I used 'ps -ux' / 'ps -ef'. So - many >> thanks to previous posters for this info! >> >> However, I'm now having problems starting a mapping app that >> I'm trying to run within XWindows. All the standard XWindows >> apps work fine (Filemgr, etc), and even Imagetool with a >> 24bit photo displays properly. However, when I run the >> mapping app, it gives this error when trying to open the >> window, and exits : >> >> X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out >> of range for operation) >> Major opcode of failed request: 53 (X_CreatePixmap) >> Value in failed request: 0x8 >> Serial number of failed request: 11696 >> Current serial number in output stream: 12320 >> >> I suspect the app was only written to handle basic XWindows >> display configurations - it's a few years old, and hasn't >> been updated to support CDE, for example. It also often >> suffers colour corruption when sharing a desktop with >> Netscape, which suggests it uses it's own palette? Could this >> be the problem? Is there any way around this?
>You can use the vncserver in different colordepths. Use the -depth option >(see `Xvnc >-help`). Try 8, 16, 24, 32. This will remove the netscape collor >problems. >Then, Xvnc is a basic X11 server, without extentions. Even old apps use >some >extentions not available in Xvnc. Hence old is no reason to be >available in Xvnc. I >recal a demo app called `xteddy`. It's old too but I don't >know if Xvnc can handle >it. Thanks! I'd read a bit about colormaps and pixelmaps, and was starting to think that it was a problem with the pixel maps (as the error implies). I decided to try out all the colormap settings again though, and found out that the app only runs in an 8-bit map (shows how old it is!) Thanks again! Damian _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
