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[coLinux-users] Problems with vncserver

[lorenzo\.perone\@inwind\.it <lor...@in...>]

I'm trying to use Colinux with VNC in windows 2000.  I've done all the th=
ings are described in "Getting started long" and in "XCo Linux" for use "=
VNC without XDMCP".
When I launch the command:

vncserver :1 -geometry=
 1024x768 -depth 16

the output is:

xauth: (argv):1: bad display nam=
e "colinux:1" in "add" command
New 'X' desktop is colinux:1
Starting ap=
plications specified in /etc/X11/Xsession
Log file is /root/.vnc/colinux=
:1.log
colinux:/#

When I use VNC VIEWER to connect to 192.168.0.40:1 =
I can loogin but then I can only view a gray screen with mouse and nothin=
g else happens.
Thanks for help.
Lorenzo

Re: [coLinux-users] Problems with vncserver

[Robert C. <rw...@al...>]

Hello Lorenzo,

On Friday, Jul 2, 2004, at 06:36 US/Central, lor...@in... 
wrote:
> When I use VNC VIEWER to connect to 192.168.0.40:1 I can loogin but 
> then I can only view a gray screen with mouse and nothing else > 
> happens.

These are my notes on getting VNC to work on win2k using a slightly 
older version of the colinux binaries and the debian root filesystem:

   http://cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?CoLinux#v08

The key commands are that one needs to install a window manager (I 
happen to have used fluxbox, but kde, gnome, tab, etc. should world 
similarly):

   apt-get install x-window-system-core vncserver fluxbox xterm

and one needs to modify the ~/.vnc.startupx to point to that window 
manager:

   mkdir ~/.vnc && echo -e '#!/bin/bash\nfluxbox &' > ~/.vnc/startupx

Hope this helps and let us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert