Roy, You are right (I have now found out with lots of searching) about where to specify whether to use gnome or kde.
I have edited my xstartup file and added the command to launch kde, patterning my file after one on the helpful link that Nancy gave. Here is the xstartup file now: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .vnc]$ cat xstartup #!/bin/sh echo "Starting up VNC server" # Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -iconic & xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & startkde & But when I look at the log files, I am getting all kinds of CORBA errors. So perhaps its not a X11 or KDE problem. I do notice further down in the log file a mention of "gnome-panel", so it is launching that somewhere for some reason. Anyway, I'm feeling defeated right now, so I'm going to take a break. Perhaps the answer will come to me later. Thanks so much for your help Kevin 09/11/05 23:06:52 Xvnc version 3.3.tight1.2.9 09/11/05 23:06:52 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. 09/11/05 23:06:52 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Constantin Kaplinsky. 09/11/05 23:06:52 All Rights Reserved. 09/11/05 23:06:52 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC 09/11/05 23:06:52 See http://www.tightvnc.com for TightVNC-specific information 09/11/05 23:06:52 Desktop name 'poweredge' (poweredge.tmedgroup.com:1) 09/11/05 23:06:52 Protocol version supported 3.3 09/11/05 23:06:52 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901 09/11/05 23:06:52 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801 09/11/05 23:06:52 URL http://poweredge.tmedgroup.com:5801 Starting up VNC server SESSION_MANAGER=local/poweredge.tmedgroup.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/15971 ** (gnome-session:15971): WARNING **: Error getting value of /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd: Adding client to server's list Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 .. Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 ** (gnome-panel:16469): CRITICAL **: file panel-gconf.c: line 322 (panel_gconf_associate_schemas_in_dir): assertion `*error ** (gnome-panel:16469): WARNING **: gconf error: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_ On 11/9/05, Roy Gaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin, the file you are looking for is in your login directory under .vnc > > After you log in as the use you want to start the vncserver do the following > > cd .vnc > > do an ls -la and look for a file named Xstartup or xstartup > > edit that file and change gnome-session & > > to the command to start KDE, it slips my mind right now. > > If you are using other than the vncserver that came with Fedora then you > need to look at the doc set for it and edit the startup file > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy > Anthracite > Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:58 PM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] tight vnc server question > > Look on this page under the dotroot users posting. It looks promising. > > http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t305504.html > > > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 07:03 pm, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > Ismet, > > Thanks for working on this. > I removed /tmp/ksocket-kdtop and /tmp/ksocket-root and rebooted. > ->no difference. > > It still wants to take my vncserver session into the gnome desktop. > It seems like before I might have run vncserver from the console, > after logging in with a kde desktop. > > Maybe I'll try that.... > > Thanks again > Kevin > > On 11/9/05, Ismet Kursunoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I found a log file that has lots of lines that look like this: > > > ---------------------------------------------- > > > Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA > > > error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 > > > Window manager warning: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA > > > error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 > > > > Looks like some references to lock files or old socket tmp files or gnome > > conf files? > > I don't know if RH server clears /tmp on reboots, but you might try > > removing any references to X files, sockets or gnome and then start up X > > again. > > > > The startup script for tightvnc sure is more than I am use to but I would > > imagine that somehow it is locked? > > > > My experience is that most common journal file systems are quite reliable > > under Linux (ext3, XFS, reiser) > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. 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