Tight VNC won't display my KDE desktop

jspaceman · 08-25-2003, 07:53 AM

I installed Tight VNC on my Mandrake 9.1 box, and I am trying to access my KDE desktop from my Windows 2000 machine. But whenever I try to access it I just get my KDE wallpaper, no desktop icons, nor a taskbar. I can get VNC to start Gnome with my desktop icons and everything else, but not KDE.
What am I doing wrong?

Below is a copy of my ~/.vnc/xstartup file:

Quote:

#!/bin/sh

# Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
unset SESSION_MANAGER
/usr/bin/startkde &

jspaceman · 08-26-2003, 05:11 AM

Hmmm, I think VNC may have screwed up my X-windows. For some reason Linux won't boot into X now. I have it set to runlevel 5 and normally it boots into KDE, but now it doesn't even when I type 'startx' at the command line. I just get "Waiting for X server to begin accepting connections" followed by ". ." scrolling up the screen.

Even after I hit Ctl-C it still scrolls the ". ." up the screen.

The only way I seem to be able to boot into X is by typing 'XFree86' at the command line. This will boot me into X, but I notice that it uses up a lot of CPU time, running gkrellm shows my CPU running at around 99%.

Does anyone know how to get X running properly again?

jspaceman · 08-26-2003, 05:35 AM

An update on my X windows situation. After several minutes of waiting for X to start and getting nothing but ". .", after issuing the 'startx' command, I get the following message:

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giving up

xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
waiting for X server to shut down

xinit: unexpected signal 15

jspaceman · 08-26-2003, 06:37 AM

One final note, when I log in from the command line right after I type my username and password I get the message:

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xmodmap: unable to open display ''

Does anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it?

huntex · 10-22-2004, 02:02 PM

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Originally posted by jspaceman
Hmmm, I think VNC may have screwed up my X-windows. For some reason Linux won't boot into X now. I have it set to runlevel 5 and normally it boots into KDE, but now it doesn't even when I type 'startx' at the command line. I just get "Waiting for X server to begin accepting connections" followed by ". ." scrolling up the screen.

Even after I hit Ctl-C it still scrolls the ". ." up the screen.

The only way I seem to be able to boot into X is by typing 'XFree86' at the command line. This will boot me into X, but I notice that it uses up a lot of CPU time, running gkrellm shows my CPU running at around 99%.

Does anyone know how to get X running properly again?

since I install TightVNC...i got the same problem
didn't know how to fix it

seems xinit caught the problem