WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] Xvnc in domU

To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Giovanni Bordello <g.bordello@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xvnc in domU
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:34:53 +0100
Delivery-date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:34:37 +0000
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <2ffe2fc105080122355b5bcfc1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <2ffe2fc105080122355b5bcfc1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: KMail/1.8.2
> 1) it is only running in 640x480 with 256 colours. I know I can give
> Xvnc the parameters -geometry/-depth, but I don't know how to tell GDM
> to supply these parameters... Giving these parameters to gdm has no
> effect. Can I set it somehow in /etc/X11/XF86Config?

I think you'll find the command line it uses to invoke X somewhere 
under /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf - add the parameters there.

> 2) I can't log in. I can fill the username in gdmgreeter, confirm with
> Enter, fill in password but even then Enter does nothing. Neither logs
> me in nor complains abut wrong password. I suspect this to be a
> problem of vncviewer because ocasionally it works. Anyway, has anyone
> else seen this problem?

Weird... Try a different VNC viewer and see what happens?  KDE has a nice one 
called krdc which can also do client side scaling.  I've never seen this 
happen, anyhow.

Cheers,
Mark

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>