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05-14-2008, 06:20 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: Fedora Core 3, Red Hat 9, CentOS 4.2, Mandriva, Ret Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Posts: 116
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Desktop doesn't display properly via VNC
Hi all,
I've configured VNC on numerous servers and it seems to work fine on most of them. However on the last 2 or 3 servers i installed on, i don't see the proper graphical desktop. I've followed instructions from:
http://bobpeers.com/linux/vnc.php
I don't know if there is anything wrong with my X windows or what. Please help..
Thanks.
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05-14-2008, 06:25 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Nottingham, UK
Distribution: Mageia 6, KDE Neon
Posts: 4,313
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What do you mean by
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i don't see the proper graphical desktop
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What's not proper about the way it looks?
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05-14-2008, 06:42 PM
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#3
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: Fedora Core 3, Red Hat 9, CentOS 4.2, Mandriva, Ret Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Posts: 116
Original Poster
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Well the screen is gray and i don't see the blue graphical desktop, i can't move the console anywhere, it's not right.
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05-14-2008, 09:43 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Nottingham, UK
Distribution: Mageia 6, KDE Neon
Posts: 4,313
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Sounds like you didn't specify which desktop environment to use.
Replace twm & with the appropriate choice from below:
startkde & (used for the KDE window manager)
exec gnome-session & (used for the Gnome window manager)
startxfce4 & (used for the XFCE4 window manager)
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05-15-2008, 01:28 PM
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#5
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: Fedora Core 3, Red Hat 9, CentOS 4.2, Mandriva, Ret Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Posts: 116
Original Poster
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It doesn't work, still get the same screen. Below is my xstartup:
#!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
exec gnome-session &
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05-15-2008, 01:55 PM
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#6
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: Fedora Core 3, Red Hat 9, CentOS 4.2, Mandriva, Ret Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Posts: 116
Original Poster
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I think i found the problem. I believe i don't have X server installed on this system, how would i go about installing it or running it?
Thanks.
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05-16-2008, 04:28 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: CT
Distribution: Debian 6+, CentOS 5+
Posts: 1,323
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Well you should install the Xserver from the packages for your distro, however, I do not think that X is not installed because you should not get a grey background unless X is installed, it sounds more like your window manager is not starting.
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