On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Jerry McBride wrote:
>
> First, using -fullscreen on the vncviewer command line causes the client to fail
> to load. Executing "vncviewer -fullscreen spyro:2" causes a new window to open,
> then promptly close. Please see "CONSOLE MESSAGE" and "VNCLOG"  at the end of
> this message for relevant console and vnc log failure messages.

I'm looking into this problem - I think I know what's causing it.  I'll 
let you know when I have a fix you can try out.

> 
> Second, from KDE 3.0.3 I am unable to construct a desktop object that would
> provide a one-click startup of a vncviewer. I very carefully enter the follow
> command into the execute property of the object, but it fails to start a
> client;"/usr/bin/vncviewer -passwd ~/.vnc/passwd spyro:2".  However, keying in
> the same command line into a konsole will work correctly. The ONLY complaint I
> can find about this is in ~/.xsessions-errors... it contains:
> 
> ---XSESSION-ERRORS---
> VNC viewer version 3.3.4 - built Sep 20 2002 15:18:28
> Copyright (C) 2002 RealVNC Ltd.
> Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
> VNC server supports protocol version 3.3 (viewer 3.3)
> Cannot read valid password from file "~/.vnc/passwd"
> ---END XSESSION-ERRORS---

I think this is just that "~" is being interpreted literally rather than 
as your home directory.  Try putting the full pathname of your home 
directory instead.


Cheers

Tristan
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