tightvnc display

[timpagden]

Hello, fellow Sabayoners,

Well, after a couple of hours faffing about on my home network, I can finally use vncviewer on a windows box to access a sabayon server running tightvnc - but the desktop looks like something from the 1980s! Can anyone shed any light on this? I'd really like to see the pretty Sabayon desktop.

Tim.

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[joost]

You need to start gnome or kde or whatever from the vnc startup script. (~/.vnc/xstartup)

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=72893

You can also post your startup script here so we can have a look.

[timpagden]

I read through the Xvnc Terminal Server tutorial and made the suggested changes (except the port 177 part, I just enabled Xdmcp) and skipped steps 7-9. I figured I would just use vncserver to start with to get a remote session running then set up vnc as a service later.

Step 11 dumped me back at the command line so I ran startx and I ended up in 1980s display mode. I rebooted - bad move!
The machine IS rebooting, albeit very slowly because at every point it is 'waiting for xdm'.

Hmmm...

Anyway, the vnc startup script was something like:

xrdb ????/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
xterm -geometry ???? "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

[joost]

you need to replace the twm (what you see now) with startkde or gnome-session.