you need to define KDE or GNOME as your desktop manager In your .vnc/xstartup file <ol><li>Edit ~/.vnc/xstartup </li><li> For KDE, replace "twm &" with "startkde &" </li><li> For Gnome, replace "twm &" with "exec gnome-session &" </li><li> Kill any existing VNC servers with "vncserver -kill :xxx" where xxx is the display number. </li><li> Start a new server. </li></ol> <div>On 3/23/06, Ed Smith <<a href="mailto:esmith@bcc.ctc.edu">esmith@bcc.ctc.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi All, Still kind of new to Linux, trying to set up VNC Server so I can access the machine remotely from Windows. My /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file looks like this, currently: VNCSERVERS="1:ed" VNCSERVERARGS[1]="-geometry 1024x768 -depth 16" So far when I connect all I get is a grey screen with a terminal window. I've also tried commenting out the lines in the vncservers file and launching the vncserver from command line with the following command: vncserver :1 -name ed -depth 16 -geometry 1024x768 When I connect with the VNC client I see the same display. I'd really appreciate if someone would tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks in advance! Edward -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div>