VNC server for windoze is VERY different from VNC server for *NIX. In a nutshell VNC server for windoze is more like pcanywhere without the encryption (ssh solves that problem). VNC server for *NIX is another matter. It's more like a terminal session than anything. The desktop I believe defaults to twm which is a very generic shell. If you wanted something like gnome's manager then after running vnc server the first time (and connecting from a client) shut it down. Everything should be in your .vnc directory (located under your user's home directory). There should be a "xstartup" file you can edit. Change the last line to "gnome-session &". This should call the gnome manager from vnc. I do this on occasion but on a slow client connection it's usually better sticking with twm. You can call any program from that shell (netscape or whatever).
Good Luck " On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, chas wrote: >> I've installed VNC on Redhat7.2 to tunnel over SSH. >> All works fine - I can use the VNC client on a PC to >> view a desktop on a Linux box (running the VNC server). >> >> However, it's not the same desktop that is showing >> on the linux box - for starters, there is no panel bar >> on the bottom, and any GUI apps running on the linux >> box are not viewable. This behaviour is different than >> accessing a remote MS Windows PC via VNC, where you >> would actually see the same desktop as if you were >> sat in front of the machine. >> >> I guess this is due to the unix concept of terminals >> which is different to win32. Is it possible to access >> the desktop with VNC as if you were really sat in front >> of the machine (ie. similar to the MS Windows behaviour) ? >> >> Thank you very much, >> >> chas >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
