Bug 253598

Summary: No cursor connecting to OSX server
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component: gtk-vncAssignee: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Implement rich cursor extension
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Patch to add RichCursor + XCursor extensions none

Description Bastien Nocera 2007-08-20 19:06:31 UTC 
gtk-vnc-0.1.0-3.fc8 on x86_64
OXSVNC 1.71 on MacOS X 10.4.10 (iirc)

The cursor doesn't show up on the screen, but highlights/tooltips show up where
the cursor should be. Works fine with vncviewer.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2007-08-26 19:23:36 UTC 
Daniel, what changes would this need to vinagre to work?
Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2007-08-26 19:32:16 UTC 
I've been trying to figure out what's wrong here. The VNC server itself should
always render a cursor. The client (viewer) may or may not render a cursor at
its discretion, or it may negotiate with the server to render the server cursor
locally. GTK-VNC doesn't support local rendering of the server cursor yet, so a
well behaved server should always be rendering the cursor itself. My best guess
at this time is that this is probably a bug in the OSX VNC server - expecting
the client viewer program to always support the local cursor renderering extension.
I think the best option for a quick workaround is to unhide the local cursor
with vnc_display_set_point_local(vnc, TRUE).

I need to to continue investigating just what the real cause is though because
I'd really rather only have a server cursor visible (whether rendering locally
or remotely). Will probably have to just implement the cursor extension to VNC.
Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2007-08-30 21:51:52 UTC 
Created attachment 182241 [details]
Implement rich cursor extension

Can you give this patch a try - it implenents the rich cursor offload extension
which OSX-VNC seems to want.
Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2007-08-31 02:08:08 UTC 
Created attachment 182401 [details]
Patch to add RichCursor + XCursor extensions

This updated patch implements both the richcursor and xcursor extensions which
should be enough for any server.
Comment 5 Daniel Berrangé 2007-09-14 04:40:31 UTC 
Release 0.2.0 pushed to rawhide, implementing both RichCursor & XCursor extensions