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Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC

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Message #22 received at 36069-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
Cc: 36069-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:26:49 +0200

Hi,

Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net> skribis:

>> On 5. Jun 2019, at 23:14, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net> skribis:
>> 
>>>> On 5. Jun 2019, at 12:39, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve never used noVNC, but doesn’t it allow you to zoom out or
>>>> something?  The kernel (KMS) knows what it’s doing, so it seems to me
>>>> that the problem is that noVNC doesn’t realize what the actual screen
>>>> size is.  Does the Internet have something to say wrt. noVNC vs. kmscon?
>>> 
>>> I don’t seem to get any controls to resize the display; in previous
>>> situations it has seemed to switch modes correctly automatically. That
>>> said, I’m happy to believe that the bug is with noVNC — I’ve reported
>>> it with arpnetworks and will pass it on to noVNC once I know which
>>> version is running.
>> 
>> Alright, let us know how it goes so we can happily close the bug.  :-)
>
> It turns out arpnetworks are running an older forked version of noVNC,
> so this might well have been fixed in the meantime. Not solved, but I
> don’t intend to pursue this further at this point, will close. At least
> it’s on record if it shows up again.

OK, thanks for investigating!

Ludo’.

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