[gentoo-user] Gentoo VM with VNC

[gentoo-user] Gentoo VM with VNC

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Hi,

another problem I encounter when I use Gentoo. ;-)

I have a VM (KVM) where I start X11 with qxl driver to use it via vnc. I
had the same setup before with Debian.

While with debian, VNC was fine, with gentoo the mouse get detected
wrong. I mean, I have mouse but the pointer is never in sync with the
mouse. It seems that it is virtual "scaled" on the way. That make it
difficult to find the right point to click and impossible to click on
buttons.

On the other side I use tigervnc that worked best in the past.

Currently I have no idea how to fix it.

Ah yes, X11 seems to be a new battle field for me in gentoo. While
~/.xsession was the way to have a custom startup in other distributions,
it is ignored in gentoo, used via startx or wdm. I found something about
~/.xprofile but that is also not used anywhere. At least with startx,
~/.xinit is used. Any common way for that?

Regards
   Klaus
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[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo VM with VNC

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2018-04-27 18:39, Klaus Ethgen wrote:

> Ah yes, X11 seems to be a new battle field for me in gentoo. While
> ~/.xsession was the way to have a custom startup in other distributions,
> it is ignored in gentoo, used via startx or wdm. I found something about
> ~/.xprofile but that is also not used anywhere. At least with startx,
> ~/.xinit is used. Any common way for that?

I think you mean .xinitrc in the last sentence, and that is what I use.

In general the gentoo way is that there is _no_ configuration done over
and above what the upstream install process would do.  That is very
different from other distros and in particular from debian where a whole
intricate infrastructure exists to handle .Xsession for any imaginable
desktop and display manager.  Look at the Xsession script somewhere
under /etc/X11 on a debian box to see what I mean.

So the answer to that question and your other question with vnc (and I'm
sorry I don't have a direct answer, or I would give it to you, of
course) is to study the documentation for the upstream projects, and set
up your own intricate infrastructure if you need one.

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