----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Towarnicki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 6:34 PM Subject: all I get is a grey thatch pattern no wm.
> Hello. I am running mandrake 8.0 vnc version > Xvnc version 3.3.3r1 > You might want to download the newer 3.3.5 version from www.realvnc.com > I am running or trying to run a vnc server on my linux > desktop and connect from my windows XP desktop. > > all I get is a grey thatch pattern. I tired to change > twm in the ~/.vnc/xstartup file to startkde, > startgnome, startsawfish.. none of them work.. my log > file looks like this: > > [jtowarn@cr787749-a .vnc]$ cat cr > cr787749-a:1.log cr787749-a:1.pid > [jtowarn@cr787749-a .vnc]$ cat cr787749-a\:1.log [snip] > xrdb: No route to host > xrdb: Can't open display 'cr787749-a:1' > xsetroot: unable to open display 'cr787749-a:1' > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: cr787749-a:1 > twm: unable to open display "cr787749-a:1" > [snip] It looks like VNC is working (and you can connect to it), but the WM can't find your display. Is cr787749-a in your hosts file? Can you ping cr787749-a by name? > > what is the unable to open display messages for? and > that routing message for xrdb? I can't really find > much on the net on this, and there is actually another > unanswered quesiton in this newsgroup about this. > Thanks. > Not to beat a dead horse, but with the recent changes in the mailing list of the relies defaulting to the individual instead of the list, this will probably be a more common occurrence. -- William Hooper If you're not on somebody's shit list, you're not doing anything worthwhile. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
