trouble running turbovnc in the sway window manager

[joa...@verona.se]

Hello,

I'm trying the, perhaps esoteric, window manager "sway". It's a tiling
window manager like i3, but with wayland support.

The turbovnc client opens upp a big empty grey box on this
configuration, which is odd.

I can switch between several wm:s on this machine, and turbovnc client
works well in them: gnome 4.0, and i3.

Usually I connect like this:
/opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncviewer -ExtSSH=1 -Tunnel=1 tanaka:1

but it doesnt matter if i change the paramterers, I just get the big
grey box all the time.

Some versions:
turbovnc-2.2.80-20210923.x86_64
Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four)


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Joakim Verona
joa...@verona.se

[DRC]

Does it require Wayland? If it doesn’t have an X11 backward compatibility mode, then it won’t work with TurboVNC.

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> Hello,

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[joa...@verona.se]

"'DRC' via TurboVNC User Discussion/Support"

<turbovn...@googlegroups.com> writes:

> Does it require Wayland? If it doesn’t have an X11 backward compatibility mode, then it won’t work with TurboVNC.

It does have the xwayland compat layer.

Other x apps work under Sway with this compat layer, such as firefox.

For the moment I'm switching back to Gnome, which works, but isn't as
convenient as i3/sway, when they work. The problem with i3 on this
machine is that it doesnt handle hidpi very well, sway does handle hidpi
but not turbovnc. Ah well...

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Joakim Verona
joa...@verona.se

[DRC]

I looked it up. Sway is Wayland-only. I would like to eventually support Wayland applications in TurboVNC, but that is a large undertaking that would require a lot of funding.

> On Sep 27, 2021, at 6:54 PM, joa...@verona.se wrote:
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> "'DRC' via TurboVNC User Discussion/Support"

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