xfce via vnc question

Brad Cox bcox at virtualschool.edu
Sat May 10 22:51:22 CEST 2003


Thanks! It now contains this, which doesn't exist
	exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

But edit it to say what?
	exec startx
perhaps?

At 1:33 PM -0700 5/10/03, Jack Coates wrote:
>IIRC, VNC-server is its own X instance.
>
>http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/xvnc.html
>
>indeed. Per that link, edit ~/.vnc/xstartup
>
>Jack
>
>On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 10:27, Brad Cox wrote:
>>  I'm trying to access a remote (headless) server via vncviewer.
>>  vncviewer connects fine but the screen is blank with no xfce panel or
>>  menus.
>>
>>  I've installed xfce and dependencies on the server and run the xfce
>>  install script as instructed. The .xinitrc file looks fine, as does
>>  the .xfce directory. I added an xterm& line to .xinitrc, but that
>>  didn't change things a bit.
>>
>>  I suspect the problem is that I don't understand the X startup
>>  process well enough and the xinit process isn't happening. Can
>>  someone please advise? Thanks!
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