Bug 285757 – net-misc/tigervnc add patch to not show the xdialog when started from the command line

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Georgi Georgiev 2009-09-20 19:13:33 UTC]

This is a patch in debian that is very nice and would be nice to have in Gentoo as well. What it does is to prompt for the username and password on the command line instead of popping up an X dialog that very often does not even have the focus.

[Comment 1 Georgi Georgiev 2009-09-20 19:15:53 UTC]

Created attachment 204731 [details, diff]
vnc-4.1.3-tty-password.patch

The patch taken from the debian package. I had to fix a few trivial conflicts when applying it to net-misc/vnc-4.1.3-r2 but it was overall a clean patch and does the job. Note that the old behaviour can be restored by passing the -xdialog parameter on the command line.

[Comment 2 Georgi Georgiev 2009-09-20 19:17:05 UTC]

Created attachment 204733 [details, diff]
vnc-4.1.3-r2.patch

A patch for the current ebuild to apply the patch in attachment 204731 [details, diff].

[Comment 3 Georgi Georgiev 2009-11-16 13:35:23 UTC]

Created attachment 210392 [details, diff]
tigervnc-1.0.0-tty-password.patch

Attaching a patch for tigervnc-1.0.0-r1. I see that this is a better maintained port of vnc.

[Comment 4 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-12-25 12:02:13 UTC]

Please submit this upstream

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-09-16 21:54:04 UTC]

net-misc/vnc is gone.