VNC newbie question

[Philip J. Koenig]

On 12 May 2004 at 20:43, Philip J. Koenig boldly uttered: 

[snip]

> 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

[snip]



OK - sorry for spamming the list.  Uncommenting the lines above 
_does_ appear to start Gnome, and it works like a peach.  For some 
reason the changes didn't make an impact until the box was rebooted.


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Philip J. Koenig                                       
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