Well, I've beat my head against the proverbial wall for a week now and
can't seem to figure it out.

I'm trying to connect to my FC3 box and see the gnome desktop that I am
typing from right now through VNC from a Windows box also running VNC.

When I connect I get a little text box in the upper left and I can issue
command line commands, but I don't get the desktop like I would if I were
doing a windows<>windows VNC connection.

Could anyone using VNC/Gnome post their config file so that I might see
where I'm going wrong here?

Thanks.

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Leythos wrote:
> Well, I've beat my head against the proverbial wall for a week now and
> can't seem to figure it out.
>
> I'm trying to connect to my FC3 box and see the gnome desktop that I am
> typing from right now through VNC from a Windows box also running VNC.
>
> When I connect I get a little text box in the upper left and I can issue
> command line commands, but I don't get the desktop like I would if I were
> doing a windows<>windows VNC connection.
>
> Could anyone using VNC/Gnome post their config file so that I might see
> where I'm going wrong here?
>
> Thanks.
>

You need to edit the file xstartup which is in $HOME/.vnc

The content should look something like:-

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

# [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb
$HOME/.Xresources                            # xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic
&                                                             # xterm
-geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
# twm &

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John Hobson wrote:
> Leythos wrote:
> 
>
> You need to edit the file xstartup which is in $HOME/.vnc
>
> The content should look something like:-
>
> # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:         unset
> SESSION_MANAGER                  exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>                                    # [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb
> $HOME/.Xresources                            # xsetroot -solid grey
>                                                      vncconfig -iconic
> &                                                             # xterm
> -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & # twm &


Sorry, that got a bit scrambled.  Should be:-

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

unset SESSION_MANAGER

exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc


# [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources

# xsetroot -solid grey

vncconfig -iconic &

# xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &

# twm &

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On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:35:03 +0000, John Hobson wrote:

> John Hobson wrote: 
>
>
> Sorry, that got a bit scrambled.  Should be:-
>
> # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
>
> unset SESSION_MANAGER
>
> exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>
>
> # [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
>
> # xsetroot -solid grey
>
> vncconfig -iconic &
>
> # xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
>
> # twm &

I owe you a big one, or at least a cold beer - that was perfect, I managed
to unscramble it and get it working, now I can access my FC3 desktop no
matter what part of the network I'm sitting it/at.

Thanks a lot!


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On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:35:03 +0000, John Hobson wrote:
>
> Sorry, that got a bit scrambled.  Should be:-
>
> # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
>
> unset SESSION_MANAGER
>
> exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>
>
> # [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
>
> # xsetroot -solid grey
>
> vncconfig -iconic &
>
> # xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
>
> # twm &

This is soooooo great. I don't use my XP box anymore for Usenet since it
was a pain trying to keep the two sync'd with duplicated groups, not I can
just VPN into the network, VNC into the FC3 box, and then use PAN without
any problem.

Thanks again.

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