From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Vollmert Subject: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 13:25:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87r28848q1.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 ([209.51.188.92]:58657) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYU4P-0008VD-0L for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:27:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYU4N-0007eq-Ao for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:27:04 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:33101) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYU4M-0007dj-JD for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:27:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hYU4M-0003dy-Ad for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:27:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87r28848q1.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 Hello Ludo, thanks for looking into this. > On 5. Jun 2019, at 12:39, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >=20 > I=E2=80=99ve never used noVNC, but doesn=E2=80=99t it allow you to = zoom out or > something? The kernel (KMS) knows what it=E2=80=99s doing, so it = seems to me > that the problem is that noVNC doesn=E2=80=99t realize what the actual = screen > size is. Does the Internet have something to say wrt. noVNC vs. = kmscon? I don=E2=80=99t seem to get any controls to resize the display; in = previous situations it has seemed to switch modes correctly automatically. That said, I=E2=80=99m happy to believe that the bug is with noVNC =E2=80=94 = I=E2=80=99ve reported it with arpnetworks and will pass it on to noVNC once I know which version is running. > BTW, for your VPS, wouldn=E2=80=99t it be easier to bypass the = installation > altogether? That is, you write a config that you want to use, you > create a QCOW2 image or whatever is suitable for your VPS, and you = boot > that directly. That=E2=80=99s a nice idea; it turns out that this provider does not = appear to give access to the disk images. Thanks, Robert