Thanks, Tim! It worked like a charm. Now that I know where to look in the archives (again, thanks for the tip) I'll go read up. BTW, the command line I found that it finally liked in ~/.vnc/xstartup was /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession kde &
All's I had to do was right-click to rearrange the icons and my desktop appears PERFECTly in the viewer now. Best regards, Bill -----Original Message----- From: Tim Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VNC and RH7.1/KDE On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:06:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Then I went and did the unthinkable, which was to load the VNC RPMs from the > RH7.1 distro onto my 7.1 server. The default desktop came up beautifully, > as stark as it is. The problem is that I cannot figure out how to start a > KDE desktop for RH7.1. Evidently, /usr/bin/kde doesn't exist in that > release and every way I've tried to go round it by fiddling with > ~/.vnc/xstartup ends with a "KDE crashed and here's a backtrace of > gibberish" sort of message in the viewer. This is a KDE bug, quite extensively mentioned in the archives of this list. Start the VNC server with '-cc 3' to work around the KDE bug. Tim. */ [demime 0.97b removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
