Tight VNC viwer shows blank desktop

[Sandifer Platt]

You may have xwindown - if you want the Desktop then follow below:
What do you have the .vnc set to?

Inside your home dir is:

$ ls -ld .vnc
drwxr-xr-x    2 smp      smp          4096 Feb 21 21:32 .vnc

And inside this hidden file is the xstartup

$ more xstartup
#!/bin/sh

 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 &
$

Hope that helps

-- 
Sandifer Platt
5210 Carolwood Drive
Greensboro, NC 27407


> I have been conncting to a RHEL 5 server via Tight VNC Viewer OK for
> some time
>
> But now all it shows is the red desktop background...no icons...no
> menus.
>
> All looks OK on the server console itself.
>
> Any ideas why this should be?
>
>
>
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