H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Mumia W.. wrote: >> >>> If connections from localhost are not blocked, this should work. >>> However, I see you're starting a Gnome session; I hope that you're not >>> doing that from within another Gnome session for the same user account. >>> >>> Gnome is a complicated environment with many parts that must be in >>> communication with one another. These parts probably communicate over >>> sockets in /tmp. I'm in Gnome right now, and the sockets I see don't >>> have any display numbers in their names. If two Gnome sessions are >>> running for the same user, how can one session distinguish itself from >>> another? >>> >>> I don't think Gnome can handle two sessions for the same user at the >>> same time. Use something simple like icewm-session, fvwm or fluxbox to >>> manage windows in VNC. >> Interesting. I have noticed that if I open a vnc session on a machine >> from a remote machine while I am logged in on the machine locally, my >> keyboard map is screwed up in the vnc session! I am not sure exactly >> what is going wrong, but then I haven't even tried to investigate yet. >> But your comment above may explain that. I will try to logout or kill >> the local gnome session and see if the problem is solved. Or I may just >> start a different manager in the vnc session as you suggest. >> >> thanks, >> ->HS >> >> > > I rebooted that machine (runs Ubuntu) and then started a vnc session > again and tried to open a VNC session from a remote machine (runs > Lenny). Same weird keyboard mapping problem. So no, killing the users > and rebooting the machine (there were some upgrades needing rebooting) > did not resolve the problem. Sorry about the noise. > > ->HS
What solved the problem was to not use gnome! Previously, I was using this in ~/.vnc/xstartup: ------------------------------------------------------------ $> cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh #xrdb $HOME/.Xresources #xsetroot -solid grey #x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP #Desktop" & #x-window-manager & exec dbus-launch --auto-syntax --exit-with-session gnome-session ------------------------------------------------------------ changed it to the following and not I get a 'failsafe' session and an xterm and no gnome but a good keyboard: ------------------------------------------------------------ $> cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & x-window-manager & #exec dbus-launch --auto-syntax --exit-with-session gnome-session ------------------------------------------------------------ I better stop now, I have already hijacked the thread :) ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]