Re: [Pan-users] 0.104 and VNC

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On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:33:59PM -0700, kourosh wrote:
> 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.

Actually, that wasn't the correct workaround.  I needed to put this:

  $pixelformat = "rgb565";

into my .vncrc.