Re: terminal.app fails with "Unrecognized color masks" on vnc4server with -depth 16 (Ubuntu 8.04)

[Stephane Gourichon]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Just a few weeks ago I made a change to the art backend that should 
> help with 16 bit graphics between machines with different endianess.  
Do you mean that vnc encodes data big-endian ? All my machines (vnc 
server and client) have little-endian Intel processors.

> Could you please try to get GNUstep from SVN and compile it yourself 
> to see if this change fixes the problem?
I'm sorry, I was only testing terminal.app because I was looking for a 
terminal that rewraps lines when width changes, like on Mac OS X (I 
don't even know if terminal.app does this). That is not important for me 
so I will just use another terminal and go on.
Still, I hope my small report brought at least some value to you.
> I only have i86 processors, so I am not able to test this myself. If 
> the problem persists, could you please report back.
Here are some infos that might be useful to reproduce :

$ grep -i model /proc/cpuinfo
model           : 3
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
model           : 3
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz

Since all my machines (vnc server and client) have little-endian Intel 
processors, there is really nothing special on my machine. Just an 
Ubuntu Server 8.04 with default install, added vnc4server, flwm, 
terminal.app (and others). Other terminal programs work fine.

Here is the command used to launch vnc server :
vncserver :2 -depth 16 -geometry 1152x864 -dpi 72

here is ~/.vnc/xstartup :

#!/bin/sh
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
vncconfig -iconic &
xsetroot -solid "#32659C" &
x-terminal-emulator &
x-window-manager

This should be enough to reproduce.

On VNC client side :
-same processor
-Windows XP
-viewer is vnc-4_1_2-x86_win32_viewer.exe
...if that matters at all (I think server-side color encoding is 
independent of any client.)

Regards.

-- Stéphane Gourichon