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IntelliJ IDEA shows a colored rectangle when running via VNC (JetBrains Privacy Policy dialog)

When I remotely launched IDEA via VNC, an exception was displayed enter image description here

Solution

  • Try to configure a greater bit depth for your window manager using vncserver -depth 24. Here is a related issue in JetBrains issues tracker - IDEA-235386.