Bug 905077

Summary:	net-misc/tigervnc-1.12.0-r7 script vncserver accept only ONE parameter since last update
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	dieter ferdinand <dieter.ferdinand>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Viorel Munteanu <ceamac>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description dieter ferdinand 2023-04-25 16:00:11 UTC

hello,
i use the vnc-server with different parameters for different displays like resolution und since the last update, this script accept only one paramter: the display-number.

i can't set resolution or other options for Xvnc with the new script.

i try to change the config.files for tigervnc to start lxde instead of icewm, but i don't get this working.

i use an own script to call vncserver with different parameters and now i have changed this script to call Xnvc directly with the parameters!
but i must also start the window-manger with this script because the xstartup-script in my home-directory is ignored. i think, in a second step, i will change my script, to use xstartup instead of inserting all settings in this script.

i don't find this nice!

goodby

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
install actual tigervnc-server

Comment 1 Viorel Munteanu gentoo-dev

2023-04-30 07:32:16 UTC

Upstream changed this.  There is a README file in /usr/share/doc explaining it.  They replaced vncserver with vncsession.  Please check the documentation https://tigervnc.org/doc/vncsession.html

Or you can try turbovnc instead, you might find that easier.

Comment 2 dieter ferdinand 2023-04-30 12:59:17 UTC

hello,
i will try turbovnc.

vncsession accept only 2 parameters and is unusable for me.

tigervnc have also disabled X-port and use only socket, but check the X-port at startup and if i map this port with xinetd to the socket, tigervnc don't start.

all this things, don't make me happy.

i also try x2go, but i don't have clients for all used systems.

then there is an other problem: firefox can crash tightvnc, tigervnc and x2go and i don't know, which function in firefox crash the server.
this is the reason, why i only use firefox for sites, which don't use this function.

but why are some functions of tigervnc are removed in gentoo. i use also debian and here i can use this functionality.

it is posible, to use vnc-server from xinetd and this changes don't make it easier to make this. and sometimes it makes sense, to use different display-size for different ports.

goodby