VNC viewer only can see xtern in remote desktop

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Yu [mailto:barryyupuilee at netscape.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:17 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: VNC viewer only can see xtern in remote desktop
> 
> 
> I have 2 machines, station-1 and station-2; both boot into fc1.
> station-2 started the vncserver.
> station-1 started the vncviewer, the result is - only can see 
> the xterm 
> of station-2, and a small vnc config box at left upper corner, the 
> entire background is gray color, there is not control panel 
> at bottom of 
> window of station-2 !
> So I reboot the station-2 and this time I select to boot into 
> rh9 (Multi 
> boot in this machine), and started the vncserver. 
> Station-1(fc1) was on 
> all the time without interrupt, and I started the vncviewer 
> to connect 
> to station-2 again, well! the desktop of station-2(rh9) is 
> right there 
> with my favorite wall paper!
> Both machine running fc1 and the vnc could enable me see a 
> terminal in 
> remote desktop, need help to solve this problem. Thanks.


If you check the archives, you will see that you might need to edit
this file..

vi ~/.vnc/vncstartup

and put there the desktop you want.

On another note.. Why not use native X or ssh -X (X Forwarding using SSH?)
It works great on mine. All I need is

ssh -X -l User server
# xterm &
or 
# gedit &

and it'll come out on your station1 desktop.

(note: I think you need to enable ssh forwarding in /etc/ssh_config or
sshd_config.
I forget)