Re: [Pan-users] 0.104 and VNC

[kourosh]

jef_e said the following on 07/24/2006 05:39 PM:
> address@hidden wrote:
>> I just downloaded the 0.104 tarball, compiled it, and tried to run it
>> within a VNC session.  I got the following error:
>>
>> Error: Cairo does not yet support the requested image format:
> <snip>
>> This is on Debian unstable.
>>
>> Anyone have a clue what this is about?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> Bug in Cairo apparently is messing up VNC usage...
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378629
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376858
> 
> Looks like there is an upstream patch...
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7294
> 
> jef
> 
> 

The temporary workaround is to use a lower pixel depth.  I found that 16
works fine with a resolution of 1280x1024.  I end up running two
sessions.  One at 16 bits for Pan and one at 24 bits for everything else.

Regards,

Kourosh