Help!
We are trying to use LyX with VNC. It works on some systems all the
time. It fails on others - all the time.
The error message is:
In flvisual.c[217]: Can't find an appropriate visual
Running the command: lyx -debug 65535 on both the good and bad systems
produces no obvious clues. Both report None as the value of most
resource properties. On the "good" VNCs lyx then seems to locate
a default PseudoColor 8 setup and builds a colour map. On the "bad"
VNCs it fails with the above message.
On the "bad" VNC systems, the xdpyinfo command reports (among a lot
of other stuff)
visual:
visual id: 0x22
class: TrueColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
Note that on the "bad" VNCs everything else (GNOME desktop on Redhat
6.2 and/or KDE) seems to work. Only LyX fails to fire.
Is TrueColor really possible with only 8 bits of colour?
Any clues? I've searched the documentation and with some help from
Kayvan have used the debug option to garner some info. What can I try next?
John O'Gorman
>** New features [yes I know there should not be new features, but these
> were almost bugs]
>
>- New lyxrc command \set_color, to set the colors of the GUI elements
> in the document [a functionality present in 1.1.4, but not in 1.1.5]
>
>- New lyxrc command \wheel_jump that sets the amount of text skipped
> when using a mouse wheel [the behaviour of 1.1.5 was unintentionnaly
> different from 1.1.4, now you can choose what you want]
>
>- new Makefile target "bindist", so that we can try again to have
> binary distributions of LyX. [As was possible in 1.0.x versions]
>
>- add 'Reset' option to language choice.
>
>- better support for arabic points.
>
>** Bugfixes
>
>- fix crash in lyxsum() when running LaTeX (with older stream libraries).
>
>- fix crash in the spellchecker (with older stream libraries).
>
>- fix two crashes related to clipboard
>
>- fix problem with tables when reading msdos-encoded lyx files.
>
>- fix crash when closing index popup from window manager.
>
>- make sure the .kmap files exist when a keymap is specified.
>
>- better dependency for latex runs.
>
>- fix disappearing cursor in some situations
>
>- fix bug in configure where installation would fail in the reLyX
> directory in some cases.
>
>- fix build problems on AIX and Solaris.
>
>- fix bug in the install-strip Makefile target
>
>** Other: documentation update, UI translation updates.
>
>Remaining problems
>==================
>
>These are bugs which are probably small, and appeared recently. Good
>clients for a fix release. Note that they exist in 1.1.6 too, so we'll
>have to fix them eventually. Please send me references to the ones I
>forgot.
>
>- When the cursor is between two spaces, then the Shift-Cursor
> selection keys will lead to a mangled selection (on screen)
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg12431.html
>
>- the documentation should be reviewed to indicate the 1.1.5fix1 is a
> stable release (should some english-speaking volunteer have a look?).
>
>- bad karma between \noindent and Description
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg11759.html
>
>- the --with-lyxname switch of configure still does not work. It just
> a matter of convincing automake to do what we want...
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