I have a linux box (RH7.2) and am running multiple VNC server instances. I have several user accounts, and each user account has VNCSERVER running on a particular display. So user JSMITH runs VNCSERVER :4, and when he wants to connect to the box he connects to 192.168.1.10:2 and uses his own password. This way, each user has their own individual shell.
I put the gnome-session command into each user's ~/.vnc/xstartup file, and there were no issues. If a user is actually logged into the box and is running GNOME then I get errors like "a window manager is already running" but GNOME starts up anyway and there are no functionality losses that I can detect. I have since removed the command, since most of the users didn't like the interface...mostly because invoking the gnome-session command also opens Nautilus. It is now an option in their TWMRC file that they can select and run from the menu if they want it. Now if I could open GNOME without Nautilus maybe people would use it more. The same goes for KDE, I have startkde as an option. When I run it I get all kinds of error messages, such as "extension 'RENDER' missing on display ':4.0'" and "Session management error: Could not open network socket" but the GUI opens and there are no functionality losses that I can see. C-ya Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt P Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: VNC: GNOME or KDE? > > > I'm trying to determine if when running a VNC server > on Linux it is preferable to use GNOME or KDE. > At issue is that I also want to be able to use the > Linux machine directly via GNOME or KDE (which > could be different than what I choose for the VNC > server). I'd also want to be able to run *multiple* > VNC servers from the Linux machine, so I'd have > multiple gnome-session and/or startkde sessions > running simultaneously. > > Does anyone know if GNOME or KDE is preferrable > from this VNC multiple-session perspective? I'm > used to doing this kind of thing all the time on > Solaris 8 with CDE (dtwm) without any problems. > -- > -Kurt Lloyd, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (978) 960-6276 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
