On Monday 19 November 2001 2:51 am, Jeff wrote: > Martin Rowe, 2001-Nov-18 22:47 +0000: > > Hi all > > > > I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be > > bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls > > up KDE. The .vnc/ session log doesn't report any problems, and I can > > run xstartup within the VNC window and it runs (just lanches an > > aterm) fine - just on top of KDE. This has worked fine for me in the > > past, though on Mandrake, and runs okay at work on Debian (though > > launched from inetd instead of manually starting each session, and > > using a login manager, so no xstartup involved). > > The only thing I can think of is to make sure you're starting > vncserver as the user, not as root. The root account may have > the KDE config. > > jc
Hi Jeff Makes no difference if root or user, though I'm only interested in getting it to work as a user. As it happens, /root/.vnc/xstartup gets ignored for root too :( Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open \ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X [this space for hire] ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \
