On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:03:04PM EST, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Appears that I need to make a .Xresources file before > TightVNC will work. Can anyone recommend instructions > or examples for the task? The transcript from the > TightVNC follows. > > Thanks, ... Peter E. > > peter@dalton:~$ tightvncserver :1 -geometry 620x730 -depth 16 > > New 'X' desktop is dalton:1 > > Starting applications specified in /home/peter/.vnc/xstartup > Log file is /home/peter/.vnc/dalton:1.log > > peter@dalton:~$ cat .vnc/dalton:1.log > 09/02/11 08:45:59 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9 > 09/02/11 08:45:59 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group > 09/02/11 08:45:59 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge > 09/02/11 08:45:59 All Rights Reserved. > 09/02/11 08:45:59 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC > 09/02/11 08:45:59 Desktop name 'X' (dalton:1) > 09/02/11 08:45:59 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t > 09/02/11 08:45:59 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901 > xrdb: No such file or directory > xrdb: can't open file '/home/peter/.Xresources' > peter@dalton:~$
That's odd.. the vnc4server script on ‘lenny’ from the vnc4server package tests the existence of the file: [ -r ~/.Xresources ] && xrdb -merge ... Maybe you could get away with defining an empty ~/.Xresources file: $ touch ~/.Xresources cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110209182156.GB4239@pavo.local
