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Mon, 19 September 2011 02:59

ed45626
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Registered: September 2011

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Thanks for the response -- this pushed me in the correct direction.

For any who run into this problem, most vnc server don't support the render extension. This is a problem in Xen since there is no video card and I can't connect to a running X server.

Real VNC4 Enterprise is supposed to support render, tightvnc does not and the vnc4 server in debian does not.

After a lot of searching, I found a vnc server that does -- TigerVNC which was built off the tight vnc server. They do have packages built for Debian Squeeze and upon installing and starting with the command 'vncserver' all was good.

I also noted that the mouse cursors now look correct.

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