Color problems with Slack 12.1/tightvnc server
[UPDATE: the following problem went away when I removed the SlackBuilds package and installed the one from linuxpackages.net. Very strange.]
I built tightvnc using the script at SlackBuilds.org, installed it on my Slackware 12.1 box, and installed the Windows version of tightvnc on my Windows 2000 box.
With the Windows server and Slack client it works perfectly.
With the Slack server and Windows client there's a problem with colors. No matter what I do, I get a grey crosshatch background and unreadable black-on-black menus.
I've experimented a bit with the .vnc/xstartup file. The default is:
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &
That doesn't make sense for me because I don't have twm. So I've substituted fvwm and blackbox for twm and the same result. The window manager comes up and I get the xterm but it's all pretty unusable because the menus are unreadable.
If I change
xsetroot -solid grey
to
xsetroot -solid steelblue, it's the same. Ditto if I comment out
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
I tried doing it with 8-bit color on both sides and still the same. At times there are hints of color but it's mostly unreadable blacks and grays.
Any ideas?
Last edited by jimkalb; 06-07-2008 at 08:09 PM.
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