On 11/29/2009 05:57 PM, Mike Myers wrote:
Justin:
OK, I got vnc installed and it's sort of working. I say "sort of" since
it gives me a window, but the window doesn't offer much more than what I
got when I used ssh to access the zlinux system. The window contains a
normal prompt and lets me enter commands, but it just acts like a
terminal window. What I am looking for is a desktop environment like I
get when I login to my Ubuntu linux system, one with an action bar thet
gives me pull-downs from which I can open applications that will also
run in windows. Am I expecting too much when I am looking for one
Linux's "worksation" interface (like zLinux's) to look roughly like
another's (Ubuntu Linux, Knoppix Linux, or any of the other Linux
distros I have used)?
Is there some way that you can get such a desktop as a zLinux logged-in
user?
Mike Myers
Mike,
As Ray Higgs already replied, this is an issue with the ~/.vnc/xstartup
file (and/or possibly lack of a graphic session such as gnome or kde
running). From the article at
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/006apr05/features/vnc/
"The default desktop session in VNC is a very simple one, using the twm
window manager. You might prefer the VNC desktop session to look and
behave the same as the login session you would normally see. To do that,
edit the file |/home//username//.vnc/xstartup| and remove the |#| from
the beginning of the two lines that follow the line reading |Uncomment
the following two lines for normal desktop|."
The should be as follows:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
Other alternatives such as what David Boyes has advised are very good
options. If I were you, I'd look over the good advice you've gotten in
this thread, try them, and decide which one is best for your environment.
-Justin
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