F8 crashes X vncviewer

[Tristan Richardson]

Mike Miller <mbmiller "at" taxa.psyc.missouri.edu> writes:

> I am using the X vncviewer on a Sun Ultra 2 2200 under Solaris 2.6 and
> OpenWindows.  These are the problems I experience with the viewer when I
> use the F8 key (the vnc menu key):
> 
> 
> (1)  If I run this command:
> 
> vncviewer -truecolour -depth 24 machine:1
> 
> then hit F8, the vncviewer disappears and there is no trace of the
> process.  This may be related to the problem pointed out by Tristan
> Richardson that the X vncviewer can't run in full-screen mode, but it
> won't even show the menu -- the crash after hitting F8 is immediate.
> 

Try the patch I suggested to Ellis Golub in:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/archives/1999-09/0614.html

It may not fix all these problems but it should at least stop the case where
the viewer crashes.

Cheers

Tristan

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