Bug 18683

Summary: enhancement gnome-wm tells me to ask for. (context: vncserver setup)
Product: cairo Reporter: Gerald Przybylski <GTP>
Component: generalAssignee: Carl Worth <cworth>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: cairo-bugs mailing list <cairo-bugs>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 1.9.1   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Gerald Przybylski 2008-11-24 00:49:10 UTC 
$ 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
Comment 1 Chris Wilson 2008-12-14 05:18:44 UTC 
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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