I saw this on-going converstaion and thought that I would join in... As an "ex-newbie" and now merely an "ignorant Linux hacker", I would suggest, David, that you try to set up TWO Linux systems, One that you can trust and love, and another that you can experiment and play with - IF you have the disk space that is! It is a real luxury to have a WORKING Linux system (I have Mandrake 8.0) and an experimental (nearly working) system (Mandraake 8.1) on a totally different disk.
NB. if you log in as a user, then SU then run ANY X program, many of your user oriented X files (in /home/user) will be changed to owner root:root. It is dangerous to run X when in su mode. If you are trying to run VNC as somebody else other than your normal username, create a normal user account (eg vnc) and run vnc from there. You can then get Linux to start vnc (under user vnc) via the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local) I have put the following lines at the end of my rc.local and it works fine... # turn vncserver on su -l vnc -c "vncserver -cc 3 :1 -alwaysshared" But BE SURE that you have run vnc from the vnc account first to kick the password off. Good luck Ceri Hankey ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Colliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:01 PM Subject: Re: VNC on RH Linux stops local programs > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Breland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:28 PM > Subject: Re: VNC on RH Linux stops local programs > > > > Well, since you are a self aknowledged "newbie", I will take say this > > first. DON'T run as root. Really, I promise it is not that hard to run > > as another user and just use the "su" command when you need to install > > or configure something. > > > I know that much. I am in as root as I am trying to play with other stuff, > like mySQL. > > If I login as me (not root), then su, then start vncserver with the KDE, > will I still get the same problem? or will the vnc session be root, which > shouldn't affect me. > > > > > > Ok, now that that is out of the way. Edit the "xstartup" file in the > > "~/.vnc/" directory. Sounds like you already have a line like "startkde > > &". Comment this line out by putting a "#" in front of it. Now below > > the startkde line, add a new line with "exec gnome-session & ". Kill > > you existing vncserver with "vncserver -kill :1" assuming the existing > > server is running on port 5901. Start up a new server and you should be > > running gnome. > > OK, Kill didn't give me back my control. :-( Going for a reboot. > > I will try that for gnome. (I can't get gnome working on my Linux box > though. Hopefully it should work through VNC). > .... > Just tried that. Didn't work. :-( > Probably a corrupt gnome. I just got what looks like TWM. At least it didn't > take my control away. > > Any ideas how I can make it so that VNC will autostart with linux, so that > when I connect, I get the login box rather than the current user? This > should get me around the problem I am having. > > Also, how can I make my remote screen bigger? My linux machine display is > 1280, though what is coming through is about 1024. > > > > > I highly recommend moving to RH 7.2 if possible as this will not only > > fix your KDE problem per another post on this problem, but VNC is > > installed by default. 6 months is a long time in the Linux world and 6.2 > > was about 18 months ago. RH 7.2 is amazing. > > > > > Let me get my head around 6.2 first. Once I understand more of the way linux > works, then I will start to really customise it. > > Thanks for your help so far. > > Regards > Dave. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > To download your own free RevilloC mailserver, visit http://www.revilloc.com/mailserver > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
