Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:01:33 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Java applet gets no keystrokes? Message-ID: <199803032201.PAA02520@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199803032155.NAA18161@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199803032147.OAA02309@mt.sri.com> <199803032155.NAA18161@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > > > It's got permissions, but it can't create it. If I run it as root, it > > > > just spits out error messages about not being able to find fonts. > > > > > > Huh? vncserver is a perl script. You don't default to an emasculated > > > perl do you? You must have X on the system, or you wouldn't be able to > > > build the server in the first place; is your X in the canonical > > > location? > > > > I have X installed, and it's a standard install. > > OK. You don't show any errors creating the logfile now; what changed? I decided to be a rootly kind of fellow. :) > > > > > > I'm trying to help, but I can't even get anything to work, let alone the > > > > > > java stuff. > > > > > > > > Are you sure vncserver is even working, since it's not on my box. > > > > > > Well, no, actually, I just threw everything into a port and didn't even > > > bother building it here at all. > > > > > > What sort of question is that? Of course it works; how else would I > > > have gotten to the point where I couldn't get keystrokes into it? 8) > > > > Because it's not working. > > Smile, goddamit! 8) The best I can do is *smirk*. :) > The vnc server is just a hacked up X server; this is it complaining > about your fonts. Are you using compressed or gzipped fonts? I "fixed" > it to do gzipped ones, perhaps I broke it for compressed fonts? I'm using compressed fonts (old version of XIG on that box that doesn't do gzipped fonts). > > Are you saying that I don't need to run vncserver? > > As I said, vncserver is a perl script that starts Xvnc and a couple of > clients. Running Xvnc by itself is like running just a bare X server; > not useful beyond testing, but it removes a lot of the logmessage > annoyance. You need the server running so that you can run the client. > > I definitely erred in saying that 'vncserver' should be run as root; it > should be run as yourself. Sorry about that. It won't run at all if I don't run it as root. I get the error about trying to write to X.log (although it has permissions to write there obviously). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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