global problem in x11vnc package

[326bd935]

I'm sorry, i'm not too sure where to place this but the issue is:

1. yum install x11vnc - doesn't install the dependency 'tk'
2. /usr/share/applications/x11vnc.desktop - Exec= is wrong:

Exec=x11vnc -gui tray=setpass -rfbport PROMPT -bg -o %%HOME/.x11vnc.log.%%VNCDISPLAY

should be:

Exec=x11vnc -gui tray=setpass -rfbport PROMPT -bg -o %HOME/.x11vnc.log.%VNCDISPLAY

(without double %s)


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The problem is obvious as when executed directly in console, the output shows:

env: wish: No such file or directory

-- this is because wish is in the tk package

After installing tk:

...
14/12/2011 22:23:48 Expanded logfile to '%%HOME/.x11vnc.log.%phrixus:5900'
14/12/2011 22:23:48 Expanded logfile to '%/home/usrname/.x11vnc.log.%phrixus:5900'
error opening logfile: %/home/usrname/.x11vnc.log.%phrixus:5900
open: No such file or directory
...

-- notice how you only should have one '%' and therefore you cannot create a logfile, failing to start x11vnc server resulting in a x11vnc cannot connect to X server, screen :0...

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The surprise:

This must have gone unnoticed for a while now seeing as it affects both my:
i686 f15
x86_64 f16
This is surprising and really quite bad. No one uses x11vnc??

[krunge]

This must have gone unnoticed for a while now seeing as it affects both my:
i686 f15
x86_64 f16
This is surprising and really quite bad. No one uses x11vnc??

I think most people using x11vnc launch it via cmdline or shell script and not via x11vnc.desktop (just my guess.)

The '%%" syntax appears to be part of the app.desktop spec:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/des...ec-latest.html

So perhaps this is a bug in the software in Fedora that launches apps?