No VNC CLI, how to get?

sallas · 12-05-2005, 07:28 AM

For some reason, I have lost a comand line interface in a remote VNC session, all I get once authenticated is a grey screen with the black x cursor. I have tried a few key combos, but there doesnt seem any way to generate a CLI. Unable to restart/start a VNC session as accessing server remotely and as mentioned, as soon as logged in do not have anything appear other than that previously described.

Any help much appreciated.

bathory · 12-05-2005, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by sallas

For some reason, I have lost a comand line interface in a remote VNC session, all I get once authenticated is a grey screen with the black x cursor.

Did you try right-clicking on the grey screen with the back x cursor. This should bring up a menu and select an xterm or console or terminal to run (that's the CLI)

sallas · 12-05-2005, 06:43 PM

Right clicking has no effect, I do have access to a CLI through WEBMIN, so I may just have to delete and start a new vncserver session. I just have that darn 'cannot find xauth in your path' problem, so will try and fix that (exporting the xauth path doesnt show when typing 'echo $PATH' so something is amiss).

Cheers.

nymusicman · 12-23-2005, 09:05 PM

did you check you xstartup config file to what it is loading?