RE: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-22 Thread Beerse, Corne
ile. At lease you won't get the > grey screen, becasue > when WM exit, vnc will also exit. In a lot of machines, twm is available. IN a lot of other machines, twm is not available. From the vnc side, it is not known what window managers are available and wich not. I frequently u

RE: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread Tony Shum
Henry, You may want to add the "vncserver -kill" statement to your vncserver script or update your xstartup file. At lease you won't get the grey screen, becasue when WM exit, vnc will also exit. Sometime I wonder why they don't add the "vncserver -kill&

Re: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread David Colliver
> You should consider the init configuration as described on > http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp. If you're a real > unix administrator, you can convert these settings to solaris and off you > go, no need to telnet at all. > And if you get it working on solaris using the con

RE: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> Corne, The rest of the vnc list saw the message too... > > Changing the window manager to olwm gave the same problem. > Can confirm that > Xvnc still is running in background and killing it from another telnet > session kills the grey screen as well. The real issue is why

RE: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread Henry Meleg
Corne, Changing the window manager to olwm gave the same problem. Can confirm that Xvnc still is running in background and killing it from another telnet session kills the grey screen as well. The real issue is why 3.3.3r2 should do this but the old version does not. Regards, Henry

RE: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
he vncviewer > from my PC and > get the dtwm manager in a full screen display. The telnet > session is still > running. > > When I exit from the telnet session it kills the dtwm window > manager and > leaves me with a grey screen. The only way to recover it is >

Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread Henry Meleg
. The telnet session is still running. When I exit from the telnet session it kills the dtwm window manager and leaves me with a grey screen. The only way to recover it is to telnet back into the server, kill and restart the vncserver but leave the telnet session open. I've tried the ma

vnc works when starting the server from root, but get grey screen when starting remotely

2001-12-28 Thread Rachel Andrew
the instructions here: http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm and I can now start vnc up by asking for a connection from my windows machine, however it starts up with the grey screen and cursor. I've read various solutions to this problem however most of them seem to point to

vncserver (grey screen)

2001-11-15 Thread Callejas, Eric Sacha
I am trying to load the vncserver and I get a grey screen. This is the log file : 15/11/01 10:45:10 Xvnc version 3.3.3r2 15/11/01 10:45:10 Copyright (C) AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. 15/11/01 10:45:10 All Rights Reserved. 15/11/01 10:45:10 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for informa

Grey Screen Blues

2001-10-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After taking the advice of another person on here i got my grey screen fixed on my main machine while running vnc under init.d. ( port 0 issue it was ) However my laptop still give me grey, or will give a chooser from the other X machine on my network. ( which would be nice in some situations

grey screen with cursor only on solaris/sparc

2001-09-05 Thread David Edward Shapiro
. I changed the xstartup script so that it just had xclock in it, but I still got the same grey screen/cursor. It is as if it is not running the xstartup script I think. I started the server with vncserver command and I am using the latest vnc to date. The operating system is solaris 2.8 on a sparc

Grey Screen with X - Try this fix

2001-05-11 Thread Ryan Casey
Because of certain systems (namely Solaris, but appartently some RedHat and maybe others) have problems with the length of parameters in inetd.conf, these files were generated to get around this. People should try this if they are getting the 'Grey screen with an X' problem (i.e. no

Grey Screen

2001-05-06 Thread Scott Dunn
But when I do, I get nothing but grey screen. Is there anyone else with a similar configuration who has solved this problem? - Scott Dunn, Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smiles are free. - To unsubscribe, sen

XDM experts . . . grey screen only fix - why did this work?

2001-03-05 Thread Jeff Vincent
All, Jeff W. posted the following recently (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/archives/2000-05/0214.html) that I tried in an attempt to help me with a problem where I was setting up my inetd.conf (iXvnc or in my case Xvnc 3.3.3R2) file to dynamically allow new remote Xsessions to be started. I s

RE: newbie: grey screen only

2000-12-06 Thread joe mc cool
Steve Palocz writes: > Your Xstartup should be dtwm & Sorry to be a pain, but I have tried changing this and it makes no difference. > But if you look in the archives under > "RE: My X VNC server is working, but I don't see my normal environment > Solaris" for subject line from me you will

RE: newbie: grey screen only

2000-12-06 Thread Steve Palocz
e- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of joe mc cool Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: newbie: grey screen only Great product, thanks a lot to everyone concerned. But: Win98 machine using vncviewer to connect to a Solaris V8

newbie: grey screen only

2000-12-06 Thread joe mc cool
Great product, thanks a lot to everyone concerned. But: Win98 machine using vncviewer to connect to a Solaris V8 intel box. All the user joe gets in a grey screen with a cursor. Everything worked fine at one stage, but I brought the Solaris box down and backup again and ever since ... :-( The