hi everyone
i'm trying to connect to sles9 desktop from my win xp pc .
i'm using thightvnc that came with my sles9 installation .
i've stated the vnc server on my sles9 platform with :

vcnserver -depth 16 -geometry 1240x768

and i'm connecting from my local pc using vnc wiever

i get the connection but all i've got on the screen is one open shell console and a gray backround . and when i close the console i got nothing .

should i be able to see the entire desktop like on the sles9 platform or not??
are there any other settings that i need to do ???????????
what are they????????
i've tried with several -depth and ]geometry parameters but still i get the same

help , plz

Go to the home dir of the ID that you started vncserver with, look for a .vnc directory. go into that directory and edit the xstartup file.... at the end of the file add a line that says

/opt/kde3/bin/startkde &

(Substitute the windowmanager of choice if you don't want KDE)

If you so choose, comment out the line that start xterm (if it's even there) and the line that starts twm (??)

kill the running vncserver. vncserver -kill :2 (or whatever session ID it's running on) and restart the vncserver.

that fixed the problem
now i've got the full screeen , i only need to adjust the corect resolution

thanks for the help
c yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :

Cool.

Have you tried the freenx stuff ? waaaay faster and easier to secure than VNC

http://freenx.berlios.de/


Dave

a friend recomended to use humingbird , but i started with VNC firts .
i'll try the others as well , now i'm glead to see this working

i'm kind of new at using linux , and i'm learning new things about it every day , so every new thing that i get to work just feeles great
caooooo:

I've got a similar problem as the poster originally mentioned, but when I try and add "'exec gnome-session &" or "/usr/bin/gnome-session &" (going off memory, I think that's the path) I get an error "you're already running a session-manager" and still get only the terminal with the gray background. Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks.

EDIT: This thread came up on a search and I only just realized it's under the 'SUSE/Novell' forum, I'm running Ubuntu (debian) myself...anyone have any ideas that would still apply?