vnc

[Craig White]

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

-- 
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>