x0vncserver complains about "XTest extension not present"

[ronif...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I have the binary 1.3.1 package downloaded from https://bintray.com/tigervnc/stable/tigervnc/1.3.1

When running x0vncserver I get:
---
Geometry: Desktop geometry is set to 1920x1080+0+0
Main: XTest extension not present
Main: Unable to inject events or display while server is grabbed
---

Which is the output from https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/blob/master/unix/x0vncserver/x0vncserver.cxx

From what I understand reading the code, the reason for this could be either my X11 not supporting XTEST, or the binary not being compiled with HAVE_XTEST.

Looking at my /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I see this:

(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST

So it seems that my X supports XTest.

Is this a problem with the binary package in bintray, or am I missing something?

Thanks!
Roni

[Pierre Ossman]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:48:34 -0700 (PDT),
ronif...@gmail.com wrote:

> Is this a problem with the binary package in bintray, or am I missing something?

Brian? Do you still have to build logs around for 1.3.1?

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[Pierre Ossman]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:29:03 +0200,
Pierre Ossman wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:48:34 -0700 (PDT),
> ronif...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Is this a problem with the binary package in bintray, or am I missing something?
>
> Brian? Do you still have to build logs around for 1.3.1?
>

I checked the tigervnc-Linux-i686-1.3.1.tar.gz package, and it is
linked against libXtst at least:

$ ldd ./usr/bin/x0vncserver | grep Xtst
libXtst.so.6 => /lib/libXtst.so.6 (0xf76d5000)

I also get no complaints when running it:

$ ./usr/bin/x0vncserver

Wed Oct 22 13:43:13 2014
Geometry: Desktop geometry is set to 3840x1200+0+0
Main: XTest extension present - version 2.2
Main: Listening on port 5900


Roni, which of the binary packages are you using? And which
distribution are you using?

[Roni Feldman]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have a heavily patched Debian, but it's a work computer, and I don't have permissions to install packages. So my only choice is binary tar.gzs (since in order to compile I need Xorg sources etc., and it's a pain to set everything up without being able to apt-get).

I'm using the 64bit binary, http://dl.bintray.com/tigervnc/stable/tigervnc-Linux-x86_64-1.3.1.tar.gz. If you run ldd on the 64bit x0vncserver you'll see that it doesn't link with libXtst.

There wasn't any i386 package in bintray, but after your reply now I found the i386 in sourceforge. The problem is that it also links with libpam, and we don't have the i386 version of it (I'll ask my admin to install that, but hopefuly you guys could fix this on the x86_64.)

Roni

[Pierre Ossman]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:14:44 +0300,
Roni Feldman wrote:

>
> I'm using the 64bit binary,
> http://dl.bintray.com/tigervnc/stable/tigervnc-Linux-x86_64-1.3.1.tar.gz.
> If you run ldd on the 64bit x0vncserver you'll see that it doesn't link
> with libXtst.
>

Ah. I just grabbed one of them without thinking about arch. :)

You are right, the 64-bit one seems to have been built incorrectly. The
nightly builds are also incorrectly built. Those also lake DAMAGE
support.

Brian, could you have a look?