Hi Stuart, Sorry for the slow response. I have created the file /home/aretter/.xsession with the mode 755 and the owner and group 'aretter'. The file contains the single line: x0vncserver -display :0 -PasswordFile ~/.vnc/passwd
I rebooted the system, logged in on the console as `aretter` and ran `ps -A` unfortunately there is no `x0vncserver` running. I grep'd for `x0nvserver` in the log files within /var/log and found nothing. Any ideas, how can I figure out why this isn't working? > This would run as your uid and with X environment variables intact so no > faffing with XAUTHORITY needed. Does this mean that I should see an XAUTHORITY environment variable after I login on the console? If so, I don't see anything like that reported by `env`. Kind regards. Adam. On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 at 00:34, Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > On 2024-01-02, Adam Retter <adam.ret...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > XAUTHORITY=/etc/X11/xenodm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-r4dlnM x0vncserver > > -display :0 -PasswordFile ~/.vnc/passwd > > > > It is not clear to me how I can set this up so that x0vncserver can > > access the correctly named auth file each time the machine restarts, > > and also under which account it would be considered best practice to > > run x0vncserver... Should I run it under my user account, the `_x11` > > account, or an account created just for that purpose? > > Ideally the VNC Server would start during system startup also. > > It won't help for system startup, but you can add the x0vncserver > command (backgrounded with &) from .xsession to run after login. > This would run as your uid and with X environment variables intact so > no faffing with XAUTHORITY needed. > > (I would recommend listening to localhost only and connecting via ssh > port-forwarding; for unix VNC clients "-via $hostname localhost" runs > the ssh command for you). > > > > -- > Please keep replies on the mailing list. > -- Adam Retter skype: adam.retter tweet: adamretter http://www.adamretter.org.uk
