On 15-Sep-98 T.C. Zhao wrote:
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> Finally installed vnc, and reproduced the problem. It turned
> out that the default visual of vnc is TrueColor at 8bit (at
> least on my machine), which xforms considers is inferior to
> PseudoColor at 8bit, so xforms rejects it, not realizing
> it's the only supported visual on the "server". Once TrueColor 8bit
> gets rejected, the visual detection loop finds itself fishing
> in an empty pond.
>
> This is now fixed and will be in the next release.
Is there anyway I can get hold of a Linux/glibc version of xforms with
this fix?
>
> ---Dick Middleton <dick@sqf.hp.com> wrote:
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>> I really understand visuals so this error message fills me with
>> dread:
>>
>> In flvisual.c[217] Can't find an appropriate visual
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is run xforms programs using vnc (Virtual
> Network
>> Computing http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/index.html - cool; check it out)
> display
>> server on my Linux 2.0.29 box. Curiously other applications run OK
> including
>> Netscape and xv but xforms programs give up with that error. I've
> tried
>> fiddling with -visual and -depth options but to no avail.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Dick
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