[NBLUG/talk] Problems with X and VNC

[Andrew]

On Mon, 19 May 2003 21:11:27 -0700
Mark Street <jet at sonic.net> wrote:

> WOW, this is getting rather painful...  I hate to ask... but
> did you turn on the execute bit on the scripts.  eeeewwwww


You mean ~/.vnc/xstartup? I tried it both ways.


> If startx command works.... Fire up a text editor and take a
> tour of the startx script in /usr/X11R6/bin/.  See if there is
> something you are missing....


Haven't done that, yet.


> Seems to me the .Xclients file in your home dir should do the
> trick..of course we are only guessing the system has all the
> necessary parts and pieces..  Try this one from either startx
> or vncserver;
> 
> vi ~/.Xclients
> 
> !#/bin/sh
> 
> xterm &
> gnome-session
> 
> save the file and make it executable, chmod 750 .Xclients


I did not have one of those in my $HOME. Created one as above
(except the shebang).


> fire up X and see if it works, then fire up vncserver and give
> it a go.


Restarted X and it came up, but not as I expected. I got TWM + Gnome. No Xterm. Then started vncserver. No improvement at all there.


> If you break it, just delete the .Xclients file or move it.


Ah. That's where a new problem starts. I deleted .Xclients and restarted X, but I'm still stuck with TWM + Gnome. And the two don't play nicely with each other. And TWM is this ugly green color. How can I get back to WindowMaker + Gnome?

A.