Did an HD install from the Knoppix 4.0 DVD, and am currently getting everything configured. One thing I'm not having much success with is getting VNCServer to setup a proper window for my remote client. When I run vncserver, it comes up and gives me the message about setting up desktop 1. If I go downstairs to my client machine I can connect, but all I get is a gray background with an X for the mouse pointer. No X Terminal or anything else. If I then tell it "vncserver -kill:1" it shuts down the first desktop, but then automatically starts a second on :2. I then kill:2 and it goes away, but doesn't cleanup the lock files even if I specified -clean.

I have setup a .vnc/xstartup file, but I don't get the impression that vncserver is using it. In part that's because when I startup vncsession I get a message:
Starting applications specified in /etc/X11/Xsession

Is that an issue particular to the version of vnc (apparently RealVNC 3.3.7-7) that comes on the 4.0 DVD? Any other suggestions/clues? Even how to startup something from within the xsession I am getting would be helpful.

Thanks in advance,
Ewan

OK, problem turned out to be something with the way the provided VNC server is configured. I went ahead and did the update to the vnc4server (and common and reader), and then it started using the xstartup file as expected. The xstartup file that ended up working for me was:

So, now all I have to do is figure out how to get that to autoload after a reboot and I should be in good shape to move on to other challenges