[KLUG Members] VNC server on linux, not showing X

[Mark Bystry]

bill,

  you need to go into the linux account that you are trying to log into and change the xstartup 
script. change "xdm" to "startkde". if you have a user named "bill" then you can find it in 
/home/bill/.vnc/xstartup.

  to restart the vncserver (without rebooting) do a cntl+esc, find vnc and kill it. go to 
/tmp/X11-unix/ and delete "X1". go into a terminal and type: vncserver (optionally you can type 
"vncserver -geometry 1024x768" if you want to tell it what size you want on the client). now go to 
your windows box and start your client. you should get a kde gui now.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 9.3 Pro
KDE 3.4.1


bill wrote the following on 6/6/2005 2:50 PM:
> Well, before I get the SSH tunnel working, I wanted to test VNC.  
> 
> A Linux or Win box views another Winx box flawlessly.  But when I ran
> vncserver on the linux box, and logged in from a remote computer, all I
> got was a small shell screen, which worked but was only CLI, no X.  I
> guess I was expecting to see the X screen I would see if I was at the
> Linux box...
> 
> There must be some sort of philosophical difference between the VNC
> server on Linux vs. the VNC server on a Winx box.  Can anybody explain?
> 
> FYI, to run the linux server, I just went to a shell and ran "vncserver"
> and "vncpasswd."  But that was pretty similar to what I did on WinX,
> too, but logging in remotely didn't show me a DOS box, but the full Win
> screen.
> 
> What am I missing here?
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> bill
> 
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