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FS#28216 - [tightvnc] rgb.txt missing in xorg

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Danijel Tasov (data) - Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 20:35 GMT
Last edited by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Tuesday, 05 June 2012, 20:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The rgb.txt is missing in the xorg packages.

Install tightvnc and start the vncserver. In the xstartup there is a line
"xsetroot -solid grey" by default. In the logfile you can see, that xsetroot
cannot find that color.

I've copied a rgb.txt from a debian box into /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt to solve this.

vncservers logfile:
xsetroot: unknown color "grey"
twm: invalid color name "black"
twm: invalid color name "white"
twm: invalid color name "gray85"
twm: invalid color name "black"
twm: invalid color name "gray85"
...
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Closed by  Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Tuesday, 05 June 2012, 20:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 21:16 GMT
rgb.txt is deprecated: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/Resene-X11
emacs and a few other apps seem to ship this file.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 22:25 GMT
Besides, can you reproduce this `xsetroot -solid grey` bug without VNC? It works as expected for me in a normal X display.
Comment by Danijel Tasov (data) - Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 22:39 GMT
@vesath

Yep, in a normal X display it works fine. I guess tightvnc should be shipped with a rgb.txt then.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Wednesday, 01 February 2012, 22:55 GMT
A normal X display has no rgb.txt, and VNC should ideally do whatever normal X displays do.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 02 February 2012, 00:41 GMT
tightvnc does not work well since long time (about one year), is not maintained and should be replaced with tigervnc. See  FS#26529 
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Sunday, 19 February 2012, 11:14 GMT
Ideally Paul should just replace it
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Friday, 16 March 2012, 01:28 GMT
Paul is inactive; assigned to the new maintainer in [community].
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Friday, 16 March 2012, 07:33 GMT
Thanks for reporting, I'll include rgb.txt in tightvnc (but preferrably in /usr/share/tightvnc instead of /usr/share/X11).
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Friday, 16 March 2012, 12:48 GMT
Moved everything to /usr/share/tightvnc instead of /usr/share/vnc and added rgb.txt.
Comment by Norbert Zeh (nzeh) - Tuesday, 05 June 2012, 20:31 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
This is still broken. The rgb.txt is indeed in /usr/share/tightvnc now, but the vncserver does not seem to know to look for it there. I still get the following in my log file:

Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'

So it looks live tightvnc might need a patch to look for the file in the right place.
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Tuesday, 05 June 2012, 20:31 GMT
Continued here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30090

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