TightVNC help, please.

The Bane · 08-05-2004, 05:22 PM

I have installed TightVNC on a Redhat 9 machine using the RPMs from their site. When I connect to the redhat server, I get a grey window with an X cursor, my gnome desktop never comes up. Anyone have any ideas on this one?

Thanks

Tinkster · 08-05-2004, 05:30 PM

Works as designed, I guess :)

TightVNC wasn't designed to be able to take
over an existing session.

What you want is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libvncserver

Cheers,
Tink

The Bane · 08-05-2004, 06:38 PM

I don't want it to take over an existing session, just to actually give me a gnome desktop.

mikshaw · 08-05-2004, 08:02 PM

In your vnc/xstartup file, do you have it starting gnome? Maybe this is a dumb question, but it sounds like a possible cause of your problem. xstartup works for vnc pretty much the same way that xinitrc works for local x sessions...the session may start, but if you don't specify what applications you want to run all you get is a useless X screen.

The Bane · 08-05-2004, 08:48 PM

I'm not extremely familiar with setting up x, how do I set vnc up to load gnome?

Thanks

mikshaw · 08-05-2004, 09:15 PM

I can only say how I did it with Fluxbox on my system...there are probably other ways to do it.
My ~/.vnc/xstartup file:
#!/bin/sh
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
fluxbox >& ~/.fluxbox/vnc-log

I assume with gnome you'd replace the last line with something like "gnome-session".
I'm not even sure that the first line is necessary...can't remember whether it was recommended in the docs or if it was a fix for something that wasn't working for me.