[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#852639: Bug#852639: Bug#852639: tigervnc-standalone-server: mouse pointer stuck in upper left corner

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi

I think it was from this source:
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2016-October/051482.html

// Ola

On 5 February 2017 at 15:56, Joachim Falk <joachim.falk at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Am 04.02.2017 um 20:42 schrieb Aaro Koskinen:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 03:31:27PM +0100, Joachim Falk wrote:
>>> I have investigated this some more. I assume you used the code from
>>> https://github.com/zohead/fbvnc for fbvnc.
>>
>> Yes, with some local fixes.
>>
>>> With this code, I can reproduce the bug. I assume the problem is that fbvnc
>>> does not support a vncviewer local cursor and Xtigervnc needs local cursor
>>> handling by the VNC client application. I do not know if this is a regression
>>> in Xtigervnc.
>>
>> I don't think RFB 3.3 clients need to implement any local cursor support.
> I also don't think so. Moreover, it does work for the TigerVNC backport
> to debian jessie.
>
> ============ Am 04.02.2017 um 21:05 schrieb Joachim Falk: ===============
> Hi all,
>
> Am 09.01.2017 um 17:50 schrieb Joachim Falk:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Am 09.01.2017 um 16:33 schrieb Yaroslav Halchenko:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 07 Jan 2017, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all TigerVNC maintainers
>>>
>>>> I just want you to know that I have now uploaded a vnc4 and tightvnc
>>>> source package that are just transitional packages to tigervnc.
>>>
>>>> So now there is no going back.
>>>
>>> Linus bless us all!  thank you Ola.  That is a pity that we don't have
>>> an easy backport of tigervnc for e.g. jessie ATM -- I can't really give
>>> it a "real life" testing since most of the servers I am using VNC on run
>>> on debian stable
>> I might take a look at a backport.
> I just finished the backport to jessie.
>
> Am 30.01.2017 um 03:45 schrieb Martin Dorey:
>>
>> Sorry to make such a meal of such a trivial nugget, but I want to convey how little I understand.
>> Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to try to similarly brutalize the old Jessie packaging of tigervnc 1.6.0,
>> if I still have it lying around, to see if I can get back in to :0 on the server that I actually care about...
> Maybe try the backport
>
> I have mirrored my debs to https://xamane.jfalk.de/dists/homebrew-jessie
>
> Regards,
> Joachim Falk
> =========================================================================
>
> So, it seems to be a regression with the combination of Xorg 1.19 in stretch
> and the VNC patch to it. Ola, where did you get this patch? If I remember
> correctly, Xorg 1.19 is not officially supported for TigerVNC 1.7.
>
>> What's interesting that server is chaging/drawing the cursor shape properly
>> e.g. when moving the mouse over uxterm or doing other actions, it's just that
>> the location is frozen.
>>
>>>> This works fine with tightvnc on both arm64 and armhf using older Debian
>>>> rootfs. But unfortunately that does not seem to be an option anymore.
>>> However, I can not even get this working with tightvncserver under stretch.
>>> Here the connection from fbvnc gets a garbled image from the Xtightvnc server.
> Maybe you can post the changes to fbvnc somewhere, so that we test with the same code?
>
>> I have it working fine.
>>
>> A.
>>
>
> Regards,
> Joachim Falk
>
>
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