Solution for problems Running vncserver on Solaris

2001-11-14 Thread Doug Fisher
We had some unusual problems when running a vncserver on Solaris that included blank screens, and failure to start a vncserver. The problem is fixed by changing the permissions on some files in the tmp directory. > ls -la /tmp/.X11* drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 104 Nov 13 18:28 .X11-pipe

RE: Solaris-2-Solaris problem

2002-01-15 Thread Doug Fisher
Is the vncserver actually running? ps -ef | grep Xvnc Suggest that the problem is with the permissions on two temporary files. ls -la /tmp/.X11* These two directories (.X11-pipe and .X11-unix) are created by the first user to run vncserver and by default do not have permissions for other users t

Meta and Alt keys

2001-06-22 Thread Doug Fisher
=== I am running vncserver on Solaris 2.7 I am running vncviewer r7 on Windows 98 The unix program "emacs" has commands that require the ALT key and the META key modifiers. On my PC keyboard the ALT key appears to be translated to