From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Vollmert Subject: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:09:48 +0200 Message-ID: <36FEF9C6-B901-4E6B-920B-00E545A10279@vllmrt.net> References: <20190625002420.27685559@alma-ubu> <87v9wtn4u9.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.11\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfmAB-0003zq-83 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:11:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfmA4-000658-Eu for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:11:08 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47813) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfmA3-00063o-9T for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:11:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfmA3-00006J-3D for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:11:03 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87v9wtn4u9.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 36069@debbugs.gnu.org Hi, > On 25. Jun 2019, at 15:59, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling skribis: >=20 >> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 11:35:17 +0200 >> Robert Vollmert wrote: >>=20 >>> There seems to be some conflict between the =E2=80=9Cgraphical=E2=80=9D= installer=E2=80=99s >>> idea of the console size and VNC=E2=80=99s (which appears to be = noVNC >>> https://novnc.com/info.html). As you can see in the attached >>> screenshot, the screen is cropped on all sides, particularly making >>> the menu choices unviewable. >>=20 >> Today I installed Guix on a Server which uses Guacamole as a = web-based >> VNC-client according to the HTML code, see=20 >> https://guacamole.apache.org/ >>=20 >> I also had the problem that the screen of the installer was too = small, >> I'm attaching two screenshots: Of the normal GRUB startup and the >> unreadable installer.=20 >=20 > I think Robert concluded that the bug was in noVNC. Rather, I couldn=E2=80=99t prove the bug was anywhere else. > What we=E2=80=99d need is either something to fix on our side (but = there=E2=80=99s > apparently nothing), or something to report to noVNC, or a workaround = we > could have on our side specifically for this use case. It seems noVNC isn=E2=80=99t involved here, though, with the only = clearly common factor being Guix, so maybe the bug is there after all? (At least, as far as I can tell, Guacamole does not involve noVNC.) Robert