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
Another option is just to run X on a PC - you can get a freeware X
client called Weird X - its about 200k of Java
hth
connor
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Connor McDonald
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Received on Mon Mar 24 2003 - 20:10:49 CST
