[arch-general] Why does kde4 over vnc look bad if host is Arch, looks fine if suse?

[Byron Clark]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:38:58PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
>   This has puzzled me for a while now. If I need to do something on a remote 
> host that is something more than what I want to do over ssh (something that 
> requires 4-5 windows or apps or configuring the actual remote desktop) I use 
> vncserver/vncviewer. If I need a kde4 app and the remote host is opensuse, 
> then there is no problem at all running the app. If the remote host is arch, 
> then I am kind of screwed because there is some setting causing kde4 (which I 
> understand uses native 24bit color) to look terrible. The vncserver setting on 
> both suse and arch are identical. The start script I use for vncserver is:

Do both vncservers have the RENDER extension?  You can find out by
running 'xdpyinfo | grep RENDER' in a terminal inside the vnc session.
If the vncserver doesn't support the RENDER extension, anything qt4
based is going to look bad.

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Byron Clark