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pidgin-sipe package

pidgin-sipe libfreerdb color depth issue for screen sharing

Bug #1782791 reported by David Vas
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Bug Description

This looks like has already been fixed for Fedora:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1594900

Ubuntu 18.04
I'm using the latest pidgin-sipe 1.23.2-1
pidgin version 1:2.12.0-1ubuntu4
remmina version 1.2.0-rcgit.29+dfsg-1ubuntu1

When trying to accept a screenshare in pidgin-sipe, the following error message pops up:
"You requested an H264 GFX mode for server 127.0.0.1, but your libfreerdp does not support H264. Please check Color Depth settings.

If there's a version of any package I can roll back to in the meantime as a workaround, let me know.

Thanks!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in pidgin-sipe (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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David Vas (outsider-dave) wrote :

I have fixed my issue locally by downloading the source, then opening
src/core/sipe-appshare-remmina.c

And then adding "colordepth=0\n" to the config_file printf, so now it looks like:
 config_file = g_strdup_printf("[remmina]\n"
          "name=%s (Sipe desktop)\n"
          "protocol=RDP\n"
          "server=%s:%u\n"
          "security=rdp\n"
          "scale=1\n"
          "aspectscale=1\n"
          "viewmode=1\n"
          "colordepth=0\n"
          "disableautoreconnect=1\n",
          alias ? alias : stream->call->with,
          address_string,
          port);
After compiling it works properly.

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Daniel Jacamo R (jacamexx) wrote :

Is this still open? I'm facing this same Issue with linux mint 19.1

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David Vas (outsider-dave) wrote :

I assume it is - my fix is in the above comment. Luckily my company had moved away from Skype for Business so I no longer have to use it, so I can't confirm if it is still a bug for me.

My advice would be to just download the latest source, find that particular line and add the modification, and then compile from source.

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