Maybe he is using bourne shell. :) in which case you have to use $HOME instead of ~ cd $HOME cd .vnc etc
-shashi -----Original Message----- From: Mike Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question on viewing the desktop On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: > Where do you find "~/.vnc/xstartup"? I have looked but cannot find it. Are you a unix person? '~' is your home directory. Try this: cd ~ cd .vnc ls do you see xstartup? Should see it this way too: ls ~/.vnc/xstartup Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Beerse, Corni > Sent: April 8, 2002 2:12 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Question on viewing the desktop > > > > -----Original Message----- > > When I start vncviewer from Windows XP and connect to my Mandrake 8.1 > > box I get the grey screen with the X as well as a shell window open. > > How can I get the desktop to open inplace of the shell window? > > THE desktop of the console cannot be captured (with vnc). There are 2 > general routes to get a desktop on your vncviewer window: > > Edit ~/.vnc/xstartup to start a window manager. By default `twm` is > started, this can be changed to any other window manager or desktop > manager. > > The other option is to setup a vnc-login construction as on > http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp. This will give > you about the same session as at the console. > > Success > CBee > > > > > > Thanks, > > Mithrilhall > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
