Re: vnc

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:55 +0200, roland wrote:

Hello,

I installed fed6 and tried vncviewer on this server.As a result I had a
black screen with a cursor in it.I used the same CD's for a previous
installation and this worked without any problem.

What could be wrong.

vncserver is started. I had to type 'vncserver' to get a xstartup file in

the $HOME/.vnc directory.

Isn't there anything like a checklist for vnc?

This installation is a horror.

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users must set a password....

# su - SOME_USER
$ vncpasswd

I would recommend that you use /etc/sysconfig/vncserver

something like this...

VNCSERVERS="1:craig"
ARGS="-geometry 800x600 -depth 8 -alwaysshared "

and also something like this in this users home directory

$ cat ~/.Xclients-default
#! /bin/bash
# Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher

WM="startkde"
WMPATH="/usr/bin /opt/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin"

for p in $WMPATH ; do
        [ -x $p/$WM ] && exec $p/$WM
done

exit 1

I changed /etc/sysconfig/vncservers like this
----------->
VNCSERVERS="1:roland"

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then I did: vncpasswd (for roland)

then  I started the vncserver: service vncserver start which gave:
---------->
Starting VNC server: 1:roland
New 'gdfecurie.gdf.fr:1 (roland)' desktop is gdfecurie.gdf.fr:1

Creating default startup script /home/roland/.vnc/xstartup
Starting applications specified in /home/roland/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/roland/.vnc/gdfecurie.gdf.fr:1.log

                                                           [  OK  ]
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then I started the session with 192.168.100.241:1
which gave the same result :-(

Any ideas?
--
Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba