[maemo-developers] x11vnc no response to taps on left of screen

[From: Scott Prive]

Hi Jeff,

For the Python question, all you need is the 'xterm' package. It's called
OssoXterm or something. I don't have the URL, but it was real easy to find
on the maemo site. I've reflashed my N800 3 times and found it there (not
reflashing due to problems.. testing ported software on it).

I get the same problem as you with the x11vnc not responding to clicks on
the docking/application bar. It's frustrating as heck because it was
inversely so neat to even find a vnc server for this. It is definately an
x11vnc issue as I tried 2 different VNC viewers, and if I maximize
applications I can still register clicks in that area.

If x11vnc worked 100%, it would be VERY useful. For example, my LInux
desktop machine can save VNC sessions to a file, and convert them to AVI,
which is much more powerful for end users than simple screenshots. I'm
looking forward to a solution for this also.

Scott


On 4/7/07, Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 07 April 2007 20:20:46 Acadia Secure Networks wrote:
>
> > Jeffrey,
>
> >
>
> > are you certain that the VNC problem you are experiencing is causing the
>
> > 802.11 to be dropped?
>
> My theory was that the N800 drops the WiFi connection when the screen
> blanks, and I know that the screen blanks when the N800 does not detect any
> user events.  So my guess was that the problem was due to lack of taps or
> button pushes, not inactivity of the VNC connection.  I did not mean to
> suggest that dropping WiFi was related to my other question about
> insensitivity on the left side of the screen.  My theory may be completely
> wrong.  It seems to me that VNC activity is insufficient to prevent the
> screen from blanking, but perhaps the N800 drops the WiFi connection when it
> goes into a state beyond blanking the screen, and perhaps VNC activity is
> sufficient to keep the N800 out of that state.  What I see is that my VNC
> viewer becomes catatonic after a period of inactivity and at the same time I
> can no longer ping the N800.  I have to wake up the N800 by tapping the
> screen.  The N800 then reestablishes the WiFi connection and I can again use
> the VNC viewer.  It's possible that I lose the connection to my VNC viewer
> after a period of both no user events and no VNC activity.  In any case, I
> would like for the VNC connection to stay alive so that I don't have to
> physically access the N800.  Is there a way to configure the N800 so that it
> stays fully awake as long as it is on external power?
>
> > I also use VNC and experience the problem of the
>
> > left hand side of the virtual screen not responding to  mouse clicks. I
>
> > am using Tightvnc as the VNC client running on Windows XP SP2. However,
>
> > I do not experience loss of the 802.11 connection due to inactivity of
>
> > the VNC connection.
>
> Interesting to know that you see the same behavior, even though we are
> using different VNC viewers.  Sounds like a bug in x11vnc, no?
>
>  I looked at the HowTo for setting up usbnet (
> https://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowToSetUpUsbNetworkingDebian).  I hope that I
> don't have to go that way (although I suspect that usbnet would work faster
> and more reliably than WiFi) because there is much in that document that I
> don't understand.  For example, step 5 says:
>
> > Now you need to configure the network on the device. Add the following
>
> > lines to /etc/network/interfaces on the 770 and comment out or delete
> the
>
> > existing usb0-entry:
>
> Once again, I am baffled as to how I am supposed to modify the contents of
> a file on the N800.  Is there a console that permits me to navigate to the
> appropriate directory?  Is there an editor that permits me to make the
> necessary changes?  Am I supposed to install these things?  I hate to expose
> such prodigious ignorance, but I must have missed something in the tutorial.
>
> My goal is to get VNC working (pretty much there) so that I can view and
> interact with the N800 from my desktop system.  Then I would like to get NFS
> working so that I can mount the desktop system on the N800.  I will do
> program development on the desktop, and test the program by switching to the
> VNC viewer to run the program on the N800.  The transfer of the program to
> the N800 would happen transparently thanks to NFS.  I need to mention that I
> am writing the program in Python, so there is no issue of cross-compiling.
>  As far as I can tell, I don't need scratchbox, although I am installing it
> now anyway.
>
> Speaking of Python, there's something else I haven't figured out: How do I
> run Python?  It's already installed, right?  Again, I seem to need a console
> so that I can run the python command -- or a Python shell.
>
> Jeff
>
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-- 
-Scott
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