VNC newbie question

Philip J. Koenig pjklist
Mon May 17 12:02:17 PDT 2004



Using Redhat ES 3.0 on the server side, I can get the basic viewing 
part working, but only with the default twm window manager.

This box launches Gnome by default, and I'd like to have access to 
the environment I see when logging-in locally.  Can someone give me a 
synopsis of what I have to change to see the usual Gnome desktop?  
(Also, does this result in X/Gnome "running twice", ie taking up 
double the amount of usual resources?)

Here is what is in ~/.vnc/xstartup currently (I tried uncommenting
as suggested in the file but it didn't appear to do anything):

    #!/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 &


I did see the following local log entries when the server initially 
launched:


    error opening security policy file 
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy

    Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
    fonts/CID/, removing from list!



BTW - there's nothing on the SxS site about VNC that I can see 
either. :-)

TIA...


-- 
Philip J. Koenig                                       
pjklist at ekahuna.com
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New 
Millenium





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