[mythtv-users] How do you speed up screen refreshes in VNC when MythTV (Mythbuntu) is in OpenGL Mode?

[Frank Merrill]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:30 AM, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running Mythbuntu 9.10 and using OpenGL in MythTV.
>
> Since switching on OpenGL my VNC updates are very slow making it
> virtually unusable.
>
> I have done a quick search and it appears adding -noxdamage somewhere
> may help but I have no idea which file to edit for this?
>
> Does anyone know of a fix?
>
>

Since you are running Mythbuntu, you could try adding -noxdamage to
the shell script that launches the x11vnc server.

You would edit /usr/share/mythbuntu/session.sh

The command to launch x11vnc would have some options like such:

x11vnc -rfbauth $PASSWORD -rfbport 5900 -shared -forever -nowf -norc
-notruecolor -bg

and you could try changing that to:

x11vnc -rfbauth $PASSWORD -rfbport 5900 -shared -forever -nowf -norc
-notruecolor -noxdamage -bg

haven't tried it, so, YMMV

Frank