On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 19:12, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Martin Rowe wrote: > > > 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 similar problem I've seen hunting via Google has also been on a > > Debian system, so I was wondering if there was a difference in the > > packaging of VNC for Debian - or more likely I've missed something > > obvious somewhere. > > Replying late but... I believe this can be caused by > x-session-manager. When KDE is installed it seems to systematically > start its own window manager, which means that when twm gets to start > there is already a window manager running so it fails. > Well, in any case I had this problem when I installed KDE on my box, > x-window-manager was not used anymore so I deleted the > x-session-manager symlink.
Well, that got me a bit further. Now it starts up with Enlightenment! I can at least get a Blackbox session by choosing it from the Window manager menu option (though it does nothing the first time I select it). As a check I put some other commands into my .vnc/xstartup, and they do *not* get run at all when running vncserver. I've since tried doing a 'manual' vncserver from work, with an identical xstartup script, and that works. Both boxes are running up to date Sid, with the only obvious difference (that I can see) being the work box boots to an X login (kdm), and my home box just boots to the console. 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 / \
