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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:59:26 +0200
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Cc: 36069@debbugs.gnu.org, Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>

Hi,

Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> skribis:

> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 11:35:17 +0200
> Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> 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/
>
> 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

I think Robert concluded that the bug was in noVNC.

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.

Do you have anything in mind along these lines?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.