On Monday 13 Jan 2003 10:04 am, magnet wrote: > On Monday 13 Jan 2003 12:05 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > >From memory iirc I installed VNC/servers and set passwords up. Read > > > through > > > all the blurb and changed the config line to include the &KDE option > > > and then a few other versions of that option including a link to the > > > startx, but I couldn't get the KDE environment to be loaded. At best > > > all I could get was a window with a blue background and a white > > > background X console window up. I believe this is the default desktop > > > setting VNC comes with. Right-clicking bought up a menu of some basic > > > apps and a few did work but it was nothing like looking/using KDE > > > within the window. Being very unfamiliar with fully using a console for > > > everything this doesn't help me much. If I sit infront of KDE screen > > > and use a VNC window to look at the Winblowz laptop running ME it > > > appears fine and functions as if you were sitting infront of the > > > laptop. Getting it to view another linux box using KDE is a different > > > beast though and nothing achieved yet. > > > > You're most likely getting mwm or twm as the window manager - so you're > > going to have to double check all your configurations so that KDE is the > > default wm - for both the regular system AND for VNC. > > KDE is the default on all 6 machines. I never run any other wm here so I > can't see why it won't use KDE when it's added to the VNC config file. If I > follow the example config files as shown on the VNC site and in the readme > file to the letter, VNC still defaults to twm. Are the settings in this > config file copied to another part of the system on the first running of > VNC and have subsequently been over-riding the config file after I have > changed it, and if so, doesn't that defeat the object of having a config > file? I made the changes to the file, saved it and even tried a complete > power-down of the system but still end up with twm.
I'm coming into this thread a bit late so apologies if this has already been suggested. VNC server will start the window manager declared in the ~/.vnc/xstartup of the user the vncserver was started from. (You are editing the correct xstartup file are you?) If the last line in the file is /usr/bin/startkde & then KDE will be the desktop used. Works for me anyway. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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