I hope this is what you need to do Use vi text editor and open the xstartup file in .vnc folder (/home/yourname/.vnc) Then, Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc Someone had answered this before: In Red Hat you have a file /etc/sysconfig/vncservers. There you can put the servers in that should be started by the vncserver initscript. The syntax is: VNCSERVERS="1:<username>" to start a vncserver as user <username> on display 1. Then you have to enable vncserver in your initscripts with the graphical tool or chkconfig. That should bring it up automatically at boot. -volker -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ronald Hall Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:06 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: VNC Server Problem.. I'm ready to kill! Please help! I'm ready to toss my stupid box out the window.. having a strange problem with VNC I just cannot figure out. I'm trying to get VNC to start automatically when the system comes up. I've tried to do that 2 ways.. First, by doing it through rc.local: su - username -c "vncserver :2 -name SystemName -depth 16 -geometry 800x600" That fails with a black screen and an X for a cursor.. no windows manager.. Then I tried loading through the vncserver service and the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file.. which I had: VNCSERVERS="2:username" VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-name SystemName -geometry 800x600 -depth 16" That also fails with a black screen and an X for a cursor. No, what doesn't make sense, and is driving me INSANE, is that if I just MANUALLY start up VNC via an SSH session after my system boots up (And I have VNC Services disabled and nothing in rc.local) it comes up with a Gnome desktop just fine. ANY ideas here? I know the simple answer is just to start it when I need it, but this is driving me INSANE and I can't figure out why it won't load properly. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Ronald Hall hall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
