RE: Mandriva 2006 Tightvnc - Resets Desktop/Menus

[John A. <JAl...@co...>]

Sounds like the old issue that KDE (and Gnome, I think) don't like to have
the same user logged in multiple times.... What happens if you, say, do NOT
log in locally, but only through VNC or do NOT run VNC for that user, but
log in locally?

Try adding "unset SESSION_MANAGER" to the top of your ~/.vnc/xstartup file
like this:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

That's what it looks like for my Fedora Core 3 machine.

-----Original Message-----
From: vnc...@li...
[mailto:vnc...@li...]On Behalf Of Steve
Shankman
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:41 PM
To: andy liebman; bir...@ho...; vnc...@li...
Subject: Re: Mandriva 2006 Tightvnc - Resets Desktop/Menus


Hi Andy,

Thanks for the reply.  I added some comments below.


> I have TightVNC running on Mandrake/Mandriva. I don't usually run it as 
> a service. I start it in rc.local during bootup, running it under the 
>  name of the user for whom I want it to run. In other words, I add to my 
> rc.local file:
>
>su [username] -c "vncserver -depth 16 -geometry 1024x768"

> I have been doing this with Mandrake 10 and 10.2 for two years without 
> any issue. I was NEVER running vncserver as a service.

I've also used Mandrake 9.0 and 10.1 and never had any problems with
TightVNC.  It always worked from when I initially set it up.  Unfortunately,
Mandriva 2006 has not been that easy.  I will try adding this to rc.local
and disabl ing the service when I get into the office tomorrow.  I'd do it
now, but I can't VNC into the box and I haven't setup ssh or telnet yet...I
was working on VNC first.

> However, with Mandriva 2006, all of my menus and icons are disappearing 
> like crazy! I have reported this as a bug, without much reply from 
> Mandriva.

> But now I'm beginning to wonder if I set up vncserver to run as a 
> service and that THIS is why I'm having trouble with my menus and icons.

I think that may be the case, but I'll let you know if I have success with
the rc.local after I try it.


> Are YOU having trouble with the menus and icons on your REAL desktop, as 
> well as over VNC??? It seems that I can delete the user with the 
> vncserver, then recreate the user and everything is fine. But then when 
> I reboot the menus are messed up again.

> I don't think I have seen this issue for the user who does NOT ever run 
> a vnc server. Hmmmm. Maybe we're on to something.

Yes, the user setup with VNCServer loses the menus for *BOTH* the real
desktop and the deskop in VNC.  It's very strange.  The only way I've been
able to get the desktop back is to delete the user and recreate it, just
like you did.  All other users are fine.  Only the user setup with VNCServer
to share the desktop has this issue.  


Steve