Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-25 Thread Bob Brickey
The fix below worked fine with 9.1RC2, but it doen't work with the 9.1 release version. vncserver is unusable with KDE. I haven't tried gnome yet. -Bob From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop Date: Tue,

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:51, Bob Brickey wrote: This should be ~/.desktop -- Watch the period If ~/.desktop exists, the setting there will be used. If it does not exist, the settings in /etc/sysconfig/desktop will be used. The file is ~/.desktop, with the period. I rebooted the

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 March 2003 12:20 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:00, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: ago. I think it has something to do with Galaxy. See bug 3081 I take it back, maybe not Galaxy. Definitely KDE though.

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 03:56, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 10 March 2003 12:20 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:00, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: ago. I think it has something to do with Galaxy. See bug 3081 I take

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-10 Thread Bob Brickey
If you remove /usr/bin/mandrakegalaxy from the GNOME session start-up programs, you should be able to use GNOME in vnc as I was able to do in Xnest. This program actually starts a KDE dialog and is apparently the only thing that prevent GNOME from starting. I tried that. It doesn't solve the

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 March 2003 11:11 pm, Bob Brickey wrote: If you remove /usr/bin/mandrakegalaxy from the GNOME session start-up programs, you should be able to use GNOME in vnc as I was able to do in Xnest. This program actually starts a KDE dialog and is apparently the only thing that prevent

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-10 Thread Bob Brickey
Probably because you are not running KDE in vncserver. if you set KDE as your default WM and started GNOME from the graphical login, vncserver will start the default, which is still KDE. What is in your ~/.desktop and /etc/sysconfig/desktop files? They are both currently set to KDE, because I

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-10 Thread Bob Brickey
Probably because you are not running KDE in vncserver. if you set KDE as your default WM and started GNOME from the graphical login, vncserver will start the default, which is still KDE. What is in your ~/.desktop and /etc/sysconfig/desktop files? They are both currently set to KDE, because I

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:02 am, Bob Brickey wrote: I found after the steps described above that the ~/desktop file still contained: This should be ~/.desktop -- Watch the period If ~/.desktop exists, the setting there will be used. If it does not exist, the settings in

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-10 Thread Bob Brickey
I found after the steps described above that the ~/desktop file still contained: This should be ~/.desktop -- Watch the period If ~/.desktop exists, the setting there will be used. If it does not exist, the settings in /etc/sysconfig/desktop will be used. The file is ~/.desktop, with the

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-10 Thread Bob Brickey
This should be ~/.desktop -- Watch the period If ~/.desktop exists, the setting there will be used. If it does not exist, the settings in /etc/sysconfig/desktop will be used. The file is ~/.desktop, with the period. I rebooted the computer for good measure and started vncserver from my

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 19:18, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 10:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Greg curiosity here... is your default WM KDE? Yes. I've noticed the same problem here with KDE is why... but when I switch to iceWM it worked... I've had the same trouble with

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started Date: 08 Mar 2003 20:58:54 -0800 On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:06, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 10:48 pm, Quel Qun wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 19:02, Greg Meyer wrote: Has anybody

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 March 2003 11:58 pm, Quel Qun wrote: Well, I don't think I can confirm it. If I login as a different user at a console and do startx -- :1 KDE starts up fine. Thanks for trying. That might be a NVidia driver problem then. Did you try starting kde in an Xnest window?

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 03:19 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 19:18, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 10:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Greg curiosity here... is your default WM KDE? Yes. I've noticed the same problem here with KDE is why... but when I

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread andre
On Monday 10 March 2003 00:02, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 11:58 pm, Quel Qun wrote: $ Xnest -ac :1 $ DISPLAY=:1 startkde I am unfamiliar with Xnest, but I installed XFree86-Xnest and tried to start it with the command you indicated and got Fatal server error: Unable to

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Brickey
Here is the screenshot of KDE running under tightvnc-server on 9.1 (current cooker) http://www.gkmweb.com/images/9.1-KDE_vnc.jpg Note the Klipper and Korganizer icons in the lower left corner. This is a really stupid question, but I have been trying to run fluxbox in vnc, but I cannot figure

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:07 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: This is a really stupid question, but I have been trying to run fluxbox in vnc, but I cannot figure out how to set the default desktop in 9.1. I thought I could just make an entry in /etc/sysconfig/desktop and set DESKTOP=fluxbox to change

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 06:21 pm, Bob Brickey wrote: Here is the screenshot of KDE running under tightvnc-server on 9.1 (current cooker) http://www.gkmweb.com/images/9.1-KDE_vnc.jpg Note the Klipper and Korganizer icons in the lower left corner. Twice in several tries I also had

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Quel Qun
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 14:29, andre wrote: On Monday 10 March 2003 00:02, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 11:58 pm, Quel Qun wrote: $ Xnest -ac :1 $ DISPLAY=:1 startkde I am unfamiliar with Xnest, but I installed XFree86-Xnest and tried to start it with the command you

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:39 pm, Quel Qun wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 14:29, andre wrote: On Monday 10 March 2003 00:02, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 11:58 pm, Quel Qun wrote: $ Xnest -ac :1 $ DISPLAY=:1 startkde I am unfamiliar with Xnest, but I installed

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Quel Qun
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:42, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:39 pm, Quel Qun wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 14:29, andre wrote: On Monday 10 March 2003 00:02, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 11:58 pm, Quel Qun wrote: $ Xnest -ac :1 $ DISPLAY=:1 startkde

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: ago. I think it has something to do with Galaxy. See bug 3081 I take it back, maybe not Galaxy. Definitely KDE though. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread Bob Brickey
I can start GNOME or FluxBox without any problem, only KDE fails to start correctly. I am quite sure it was able to do so only few weeks ago. vncserver worked fine in 9.1rc1. -Bob _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service:

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:00, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 09:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: ago. I think it has something to do with Galaxy. See bug 3081 I take it back, maybe not Galaxy. Definitely KDE though. Greg,, If you have either rc1 or Beta3 cd's around... try

[Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Meyer
Has anybody tested the current tightvnc-server. I have been playing with it tonight after updating to the current cooker, and when connecting with the tightvnc-client on a Windows box, I only see a screen with the default Mandrake wallpaper and the cursor as an hourglass. I installed from

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 19:02, Greg Meyer wrote: Has anybody tested the current tightvnc-server. I have been playing with it tonight after updating to the current cooker, and when connecting with the tightvnc-client on a Windows box, I only see a screen with the default Mandrake wallpaper

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 March 2003 10:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Greg curiosity here... is your default WM KDE? Yes. -- Greg

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-08 Thread Quel Qun
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 19:02, Greg Meyer wrote: Has anybody tested the current tightvnc-server. I have been playing with it tonight after updating to the current cooker, and when connecting with the tightvnc-client on a Windows box, I only see a screen with the default Mandrake wallpaper

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 March 2003 10:48 pm, Quel Qun wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 19:02, Greg Meyer wrote: Has anybody tested the current tightvnc-server. I have been playing with it tonight after updating to the current cooker, and when connecting with the tightvnc-client on a Windows box, I only

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-08 Thread Quel Qun
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:06, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 10:48 pm, Quel Qun wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 19:02, Greg Meyer wrote: Has anybody tested the current tightvnc-server. I have been playing with it tonight after updating to the current cooker, and when connecting

Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started

2003-03-08 Thread Bob Brickey
I have the problem here using an nVidia driver. -Bob Brickey From: Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] tightvnc-server, no desktop or window manager started Date: 08 Mar 2003 20:58:54 -0800 On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:06, Greg Meyer