Success! No such problem with ubuntu-16.04 mate! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dieter Blaas, Max F. Perutz Laboratories Medical University of Vienna, Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, A-1030 Vienna, Austria, Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616, e-mail: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am 03.02.2017 um 08:39 schrieb Dieter Blaas: > Thanks! > > apt-cache show xserver-xorg | grep Version > gives me: Version: 1:7.7+13ubuntu3 > > and: > > dpkg -s libgtk-3-0|grep '^Version' > Version: 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.1 > > It could thus very well be the same/similar issue! I shall change to > Ubuntu Mate that hopefully does not have this problem! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dieter Blaas, > Max F. Perutz Laboratories > Medical University of Vienna, > Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), > Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, > A-1030 Vienna, Austria, > Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, > Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616, > e-mail: [email protected] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Am 03.02.2017 um 00:47 schrieb DRC: >> I have never seen that issue on Ubuntu, nor can I reproduce it on my >> nVidia-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation. However, I have seen a >> similar issue on other GNOME 3 platforms, including SLES 12, RHEL 7, and >> Fedora 22. I'm wondering if it's the same issue you're experiencing: >> >> https://github.com/TurboVNC/turbovnc/issues/43#issuecomment-239725105 >> >> If so, then it's caused by an interaction bug between GTK3 and X.org 7.7 >> (the version on which TurboVNC is based), and it should be fixed in GTK >> 3.19.6, but that version doesn't appear to have made it into Xenial yet. >> >> The issue doesn't exist with later versions of the X.org X server. >> Specifically, it's known to occur with xorg-xserver 1.13 and earlier but >> not with xorg-xserver 1.15 (TurboVNC uses xorg-xserver 1.12.4.) >> However, I spent numerous hours last summer (as I was debugging TurboVNC >> 2.1) attempting to figure out what it was about xorg-xserver 1.15 that >> made that version immune from the bug. Unfortunately I was never able >> to identify the exact point at which the fix occurred. If I could >> identify that, then I could back-port the relevant code into the >> TurboVNC X server. >> >> >> On 2/2/17 12:53 AM, Dieter Blaas wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I installed the latest version of TurboVNC under Ubuntu-16.04 and >>> everything works fine when connected from remote. However, strangely, >>> only when I want to open a terminal through 'Applications > System tools >>> > Terminal I see the message 'Starting Terminal' in the bottom bar and >>> the little spinning cursor on the desktop but both disappear after about >>> 20 seconds and nothing happens. All other applications e.g. Firefox, >>> Libre Office etc. work as expected. Locally, there is no such problem >>> whatsoever. Is this known and if so, is there a solution? >>> >>> Thanks, Dieter >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> TurboVNC-Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/turbovnc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > TurboVNC-Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/turbovnc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ TurboVNC-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/turbovnc-users
