Wierd behavior

[James Weatherall]

John,

There's no such thing as "full colour mode" in X - that's a VNC Viewer
option.  Are you sure you're not doing the exact opposite of what I'm
suggesting?

To clarify:
- Run your X server with -depth 16
- Run your VNC Viewer with Low Colour or Medium Colour (not Full Colour)

I'm a little surprised that your viewer doesn't just stay in low colour mode
when you run it - AutoSelect will only switch to Full Colour if it thinks
that the connection between the viewer and server is fast enough, which it
evidently isn't in this case.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:JAldrich "at" covista.com] 
> Sent: 04 January 2005 16:18
> To: 'James Weatherall'; 'RealVNC List (E-mail)'
> Cc: 'VNC List (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: Wierd behavior
> 
> 
> Well, I tried it and it does appear to be unbearably slow in 
> full color
> mode.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Weatherall [mailto:jnw "at" realvnc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:33 AM
> To: 'John Aldrich'; 'RealVNC List (E-mail)'
> Cc: 'VNC List (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: Wierd behavior
> 
> 
> John,
> 
> The problem is probably that in 8bpp mode, the X server will 
> be using a
> colour palette, rathern than true-colour.  When Mozilla is 
> selected, the
> palette will switch to what Mozilla wants.  When another app 
> is selected, it
> will switch to that app's palette.
> 
> I'm surprised that switching your server to 8bpp makes any noticable
> performance difference.  Are you sure you didn't mean to set 
> the VNC Viewer
> to request low- or medium- colour, while leaving the server 
> to use 16bpp
> internally?
> Regards,
> 
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vnc-tight-list-admin "at" lists.sourceforge.net 
> > [mailto:vnc-tight-list-admin "at" lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> > Of John Aldrich
> > Sent: 04 January 2005 14:10
> > To: RealVNC List (E-mail)
> > Cc: VNC List (E-mail)
> > Subject: Wierd behavior
> > 
> > I'm using TightVNC on my machine at work and RealVNC on my 
> > linux box at
> > home. Here's the script I use to launch the VNC Server:
> > vncserver -depth 8bpp -geometry 1024x768 -nevershared -localhost
> > 
> > For some reason, whenever I switch to an active Mozilla 
> > window, the display,
> > except for the active Mozilla window, goes green. When I 
> > switch to any other
> > window, it goes back to normal colors. 
> > 
> > My window manager on the linux box (Fedora Core 3) is KDE. 
> I've got a
> > RivaTNT video card there, and I'm assuming that, since I 
> > didn't load the
> > Riva TNT video drivers, that I'm not using those drivers.
> > 
> > Any ideas why it's behaving this way? BTW, the 8-bit color is 
> > for speed
> > reasons.
> > 
> > Since this is mixing TightVNC and RealVNC I'm sending to both 
> > lists. BTW,
> > the behavior is the same whether I'm using TightVNC or 
> RealVNC for the
> > client. Also, since I didn't have this problem under RH9 (previous
> > incarnation of the box that I'm connecting to) I'm assuming 
> > it's something
> > to do with the VNC Server. OTOH, I'm using a newer version of 
> > KDE and other
> > things are new as well (same hardware, just newer versions 
> of all the
> > software) it could be something else as well.
> > 	John
> > 
> > 
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