Re: Off Topic : VNC

Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>
> Well, it's not totally off-topic.
>
> My Red Hat box is chugging away as my Oracle server, but I want to tuck it
> away out of site (out of sound, actually, as it's an Athlon with a rather,
> er, 'rumbustious' cooling fan. It must be cleared for departure by now, and
> ready for take-off!).
>
> So I stick VNC on it, and a viewer on my nice-and-quiet Pentium PC, and I
> can connect, and do stuff. And I'm happy it works. But I'm not happy that
> VNC displays what must be the most minimalist Windows Manager ever to grace
> the face of the planet... twm. Yuck.
>
> So I trawl through Google, and get all sorts of cryptic advice about getting
> something more decent on display. So, sure enough, I discover a .vnc
> sub-directory in my home directory, and within that there surely is a script
> called xstartup, and in there I replace 'twm' with 'enlightenment' or
> 'startkde' or any other thing I can think of... and none of it makes the
> slightest bit of difference. Back on the client PC, I still get yucky twm.
>
> What am I doing wrong, please? If anyone is administering a Unix or Linux
> box remotely with VNC, and using a decent windows manager to do it, please
> let me know how you managed it!!
>
> (In case this makes a difference, I've got an rc5.d script that invokes the
> vncserver application so that the vnc server starts automatically at boot. I
> thought perhaps this might mean there's *another* .vnc directory floating
> around the place, meaning I've spent two hours editing the wrong one, and
> hence the change-less behaviour. But if there is, I can't find it).
>
> Not truly Oracle, I grant you, so please feel free to ignore. But any help
> granted by Linux-aware Oracle Gurus gratefully received.
>
> Regards
> HJR
You get a .vnc directory normally for each user (often in their home directory) so that multiple people can be using vnc on different displays - so you will need the correct one. Maybe some judicious 'echo's' in the script to make sure you've got the correct one.

Another thing I've seen in the past is that if the vnc startup cannot find the window manager you've specified it will sometimes default to twm - so ensure that the correct path's etc are set up

hth
connor

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