On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Martin Rowe wrote: > Hi all > > I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be > bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls up > KDE. The .vnc/ session log doesn't report any problems, and I can run > xstartup within the VNC window and it runs (just lanches an aterm) fine - > just on top of KDE. This has worked fine for me in the past, though on > Mandrake, and runs okay at work on Debian (though launched from inetd > instead of manually starting each session, and using a login manager, so > no xstartup involved). > > The only similar problem I've seen hunting via Google has also been on a > Debian system, so I was wondering if there was a difference in the > packaging of VNC for Debian - or more likely I've missed something > obvious somewhere.
Replying late but... I believe this can be caused by x-session-manager. When KDE is installed it seems to systematically start its own window manager, which means that when twm gets to start there is already a window manager running so it fails. Well, in any case I had this problem when I installed KDE on my box, x-window-manager was not used anymore so I deleted the x-session-manager symlink. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/ Any sufficiently advanced Operating System is indistinguishable from Linux
