$ gnome-wm& [1] 4680 sh-3.1$ Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension. Error: Cairo does not yet support the requested image format: Depth: 8 Alpha mask: 0x00000000 Red mask: 0x00000007 Green mask: 0x00000038 Blue mask: 0x000000c0 Please file an enhacement request (quoting the above) at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=cairo metacity: /build/buildd/libcairo-1.2.4/src/cairo-image-surface.c:155: _cairo_format_from_pixman_format: Assertion `NOT_REACHED' failed. <<<< I'm sending the above as directed by the messages generated when I tried to start gnome-wm on a vncserver window from an xterm window in it. This may all be bogus because I was just trying to get something nicer than TWM started on my vncserver set up, and I'm not savvy enough to figure out what's going wrong with launching my vncserver. X11vnc works on my server running debian (etch), but not vncserver. It's vncserver 3.3.7-14. Can anyone tell me which programs need to be launched to give me a vncserver screen that looks like the console screen one gets by running startx? or where to find a good tutorial? Thank you for your patience. Regards, Gerald Przybylski
Support for 8-,15-,16-bit Xservers was added in cairo 1.4. 1.6.4 is available from Debian testing which from the description of your problem should be all your need to get your setup working. As to your more general question, by the lack of response here, I'd suggest that this wasn't the most appropiate place to ask about vncserver. Alas, I can't help there either, so my suggestion is try testing/Lenny first and then try to find help in the vncserver community.
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