VNC and fc3

[Scott Ward]

That took care of it - thanks! One last thing... how do I change the 
default screen size/resolution?


O'Neill, Donald (US - Deerfield) wrote:

>This is a easy one.. 
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>Replace the line -> tvm & 
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>For a KDE desktop; 
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>startkde &
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>For Gnome desktop;
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>gnome-session & 
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>www.linuxtech.cc
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Scott Ward
>Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 11:48 AM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: VNC and fc3
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>Eucke - Below are the contents of my xstartup file. I didn't see 
>anything specific to my user session. One thing I did notice, however, 
>is that the script references "/etc/vnc/xstartup" which doesn't exist! 
>In fact, there is no vnc directory under /etc.
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>#!/bin/sh
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># Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
>unset SESSION_MANAGER
>exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
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>[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
>[ -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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>Eucke wrote:
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>>Scott Ward wrote:
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>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I have VNC Server running as a service on Fedora Core 3 and I have
>>>opened TCP port 5901 on the Linux firewall. From my WinXP laptop I am
>>>able to log in to the VNC Server, but then I just get a blank
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>screen...
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>>>nothing more. HELP!
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>...Scott
>>>      
>>>
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>>Hey Scott,
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>>Sounds like you're hitting your first xorg vnc configuration.  You 
>>will need to checkout a file called /root/.vnc/xstartup and comment 
>>out everything except the line that invokes the session you want.  
>>Also, you may want to look into adjusting your ssh session 
>>resolution.  Holler back if you need help but just doing a search on 
>>your system vnc* should help you find that config file.
>>
>>-Eucke
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