DRC, I think something is wrong still. I managed to get icewm kinda, sorta working. I get the same odd behavior in now, the screen is still not rendering correctly. Actually I've got one session that is more or less gnome (even though my default desktop is KDE) and one session that is more or less icewm.
What happens though is that when the vnc session first is rendered on my client, it appears correctly, just for a brief instant. It immediately then goes to a blank screen, but if you drag your cursor around you can make some of the screen elements appears. And as I stated earlier, you can actually do certain actions. Would this be related to the font issue in anyway? I didn't so far make the change that you suggested. Instead, I was about to get the vncserver to start by loading all the font files and the font server as I indicated in my earlier post. Also, I do note that you default xstartup file, twm is NOT commented out. Any further advise you can give is most appreciated! Regards, Mike Hinz President YR20 1718 Fry Road, Suite 440 Houston, TX 77084 [email protected] 832-225-1293 (o) 713-594-3095 (m) 832-550-2657 (f) -----Original Message----- From: DRC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DRC Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:48 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Tigervnc-users] another issue - configure a desktop of our choice Well, for every one that chooses to edit xstartup, it's been my experience that there are 100 more that will submit a support request asking why they don't get Gnome/KDE in their VNC session, which is why we added the additional lines that attempt to load the default window manager. Perhaps they're broken in Fedora 11. However, you can simply comment out everything above [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources to get back the old behavior. If it's still broken, then that means it was broken before we added the xstartup patch. [email protected] wrote: > I've run into another problem when attempting to use the latest version of tigervnc. Environment is same as earlier. Fedora 11 beta, fully updated, running in a VM on a Fedora 11 beta physical server. > > In the past, we've always been able to configure a desktop of our choice, typically icewm, since that works absolutely the best over poor connectivity. > > The way we've done that, since even the very earliest days of vnc, was to edit the file xstartup located in the user's home directory under .vnc. So, we'd normally edit something like /root/.vnc/xstartup or maybe something like /home/mike/.vnc/xstartup. > > It appears that you've changed the xstartup file substantially. Appending the lines we need to start icewm and commenting out the twm no lnoger work. Even slightly worse is that we can start the vncserver now and we can attach to it from a client, but even with xstartup completely as defaulted, the desktop is all screwed up. It looks like it tries to display gnome desktop, but it's a mess and you can only make it visible by dragging your cursor around the screen. It is working, in a manner of speaking, as I can execute some apps if I can manage to make a bit of the menu bar visible. > > So, can you give me some advice as to how to fix this one up? We really need the option to install a minimalistic desktop, and as above, our current choice is icewm. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give us on this. > > Regards, > > > > Mike Hinz > President > YR20 > 1718 Fry Road, Suite 440 > Houston, TX 77084 > [email protected] > 832-225-1293 (o) > 713-594-3095 (m) > 832-550-2657 (f) > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. > Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com > _______________________________________________ > Tigervnc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users
