Bug 52145

Summary:	VNC Viewer causes odd display of terminal output
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Derrick Schommer <chimera1976>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Derrick Schommer 2002-12-20 17:04:17 UTC

Version:           2.0.1 (using KDE KDE 3.0.3)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          Redhat 8.0 RPM (not compiled by me) RPM, not source
OS:          Linux

The konsole does not display properly when using the VNC client.  I used a standard installation of the VNC client (no special configuration options).

Here are some details that might be useful:
-The issue appears in both KDE and GNOME destkop environments

-The display resolution through the VNC view is: 1280x1024

-Standard installation of RedHat 8.0

-Does not happen in a non-VNC mode (using the real display)

-This is the first, and only view of VNC server running on the host machine exhibiting the issue.

-Does not occur with the "konsole" binary shipped with KDE 2.2.2 on Debian.

I get this message when I type "konsole&":

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".
Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":1.0".

The display prompt looks similar to this:

root@hostname                /tmp]#       |

And when I type all my text is evenly spaced like so:

"    cd   /  r  o  o  t"


I've tried all the session types, fonts, and I've played with different settings and preferences trying to make it work, but the problem does not go away.

I've not found any work arounds, and others I know have experienced the same issue (using the same platform).

Comment 1 Laurent Licour 2003-03-19 23:35:22 UTC

Hi

I've got the same problem, with the same configuration
Here is a solution :

edit the vncserver file (/usr/bin)
You should have something like that :

# Add font path and color database stuff here, e.g.:
#
$cmd .= " -fp unix/:7100";
# $cmd .= " -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/";
# $cmd .= " -co /usr/lib/X11/rgb";
#

Just uncomment the two lines
# Add font path and color database stuff here, e.g.:
#
$cmd .= " -fp unix/:7100";
$cmd .= " -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/";
$cmd .= " -co /usr/lib/X11/rgb";
#

It works fine for me

Comment 2 Sashmit Bhaduri 2003-09-18 01:01:02 UTC

This seems like normal behavior if Xft/xft2 is enabled when using an X server which 
doesn't support the RENDER extention, like xvnc. Probably should be closed, as it's 
more Qt related.

Comment 3 Derrick Schommer 2003-09-22 18:34:11 UTC

Is there any plan to support the RENDER extention in xvnc?  If there is, then I 
assume this problem would just disappear...

Comment 4 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-01-30 19:53:32 UTC

Not Konsole related.