Hi, yes, that fixes the problem I mentioned, thanks.
however, after doing this: ---snip--- daniel@daniel:~$ tigervncserver New 'X-daniel' desktop at :1 on machine daniel Starting applications specified in /etc/X11/Xvnc-session Log file is /home/daniel/.vnc/daniel:1.log Use xtigervncviewer -SecurityTypes VncAuth -passwd /home/daniel/.vnc/passwd :1 to connect to the vnc server. daniel@daniel:~$ ---snap--- nothing apparently happened (i've installed tigervnc on a system that has nothing installed, except tigervnc-{common,standalone-serveR} (plus their depends) and ssh. the log looks like this: ---snip--- Xvnc TigerVNC 1.7.0 - built Jan 3 2017 13:08:23 Copyright (C) 1999-2016 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. Underlying X server release 11900000, The X.Org Foundation Tue Jan 3 17:49:42 2017 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on local interface(s), port 5901 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":1" after 172 requests (171 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Killing Xtigervnc process ID 17787... success! ---snap--- let me know if you need any more information, etc. Regards, Daniel