Hi there, I've spent the last day or so configuring VNC so that I can access my desktop on campus. I'm being extremely security zealous with this project. To connect, I have to open an ssh session and start the vnc server manually and it closes when i'm done. obviously the vnc passwords and the ssh passwords are different. Anyway i spent a while being able to use the :0 display. I ended up using x11vnc. I later decided that this was a really bad idea because someone sitting at my console in my room would see everything i was doing.

So, my question is: how can I configure the :1 display? Nothing starts up and all I get when I vnc into it is a grey screen with a console window open. I'm not even entirely sure that it's gnome running, like on my primary desktop.

thanks

/%userdir%/.vnc/xstartup

depending on what linux you are running you edit this file.
for slackware i have:

#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc