Starting KDE when connecting with VNC

Yig · 04-19-2006, 10:52 AM

Hi,

I configured A VNC server on my CentOS 4.3 box to automatically starts with xinetd. Look like I did that part correctly because I can connect.

Unfortunately, when I connect, I see a TWN desktop (gray desktop, X as a cursor, no icons or anything).

I was told to edit ~/.vnc/xstartup.

This is what is in that file:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

I tried to put a startkde in there but I still see the TWN desktop when I connect.

Maybe I need to modify the xinitrc file?

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 1999 - 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. This
# copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
# copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the
# GNU General Public License version 2.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

# Mandatorily source xinitrc-common, which is common code shared between the
# Xsession and xinitrc scripts which has been factored out to avoid duplication
. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common

# The user may have their own clients they want to run.  If they don't,
# fall back to system defaults.
if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
        exec $DBUS_LAUNCH $HOME/.Xclients || \
        exec $HOME/.Xclients
elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
        exec $DBUS_LAUNCH /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients || \
        exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
       # failsafe settings.  Although we should never get here
       # (we provide fallbacks in Xclients as well) it can't hurt.
       xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
       xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &

       if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/twm ]; then
               exec /usr/X11R6/bin/twm
       fi
fi

Thanks!

bathory · 04-19-2006, 12:00 PM

Take a look at this

Yig · 04-19-2006, 12:41 PM

Thanks for the reply.

Already tried to put startkde & in xstartup but it didn't work.

As you can see, there is no mention of TWN in xstartup.

bathory · 04-19-2006, 01:07 PM

Remove the line:

Code:

exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

and add the line

Code:

/opt/kde/bin/startkde &

Of course you have to change the path to "startkde" accordingly.
Or, make a backup of your xinitrc and then remove everything in it and add just the line to run "startkde".

Yig · 04-19-2006, 01:29 PM

I found starkde in /usr/bin so I added that one to xstarup. There is nothing in /opt.

Still not working.

Edit: To be sure, I went on the server and ran xstartup. Told me that KDE was already running on that display. So in theory that would work.

bathory · 04-20-2006, 02:44 AM

It works for most distros. I did a little search and I found out, that perhaps you have edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop:

Code:

DESKTOP="KDE"
DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"