Updates only on mouse movement

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:02:58AM -0700, Bill Nassauer wrote:

> When connecting to any one of these servers, and consequently presented
> with the xdm login screen, everything is normal and we are able to log
> in normally.  About 90% of the time, logging the user out of his/her
> Linux session (choosing "logout" from the window manager) causes the VNC
> viewer application to quit (or crash?).

Idle timeout?  See the VNC server logs to see the reason the viewer
was disconnected.

> HOWEVER, occasionally it keeps running, and we return gracefully
> back to the xdm login screen.  In this circumstance the screen
> updates only when the mouse is moved, and when text is entered via
> the keyboard it does not show unless the mouse is moved, at which
> point the screen updates.  If we go ahead and log in, this behavior
> continues.  If we kill and restart the VNC Viewer client everything
> returns to normal.

I have seen this symptom with 4.0beta.  Are you running NTP on the
server?  Does the problem still persist if you turn off the NTP
daemon?

Tim.
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