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Why my Unix/Linux VNC session shows only xterm instead of full desktop
Nov 3rd
The default VNC startup script (~/.vnc/xstartup) doesn’t include any commands to start standard desktops like KDE or GNOME. It contains commands to start primitive TWM as window manager and one xterm terminal as application. The following will be the typical startup file for VNC in Fedora systems.
[neo@neo.techpulp.com ~/.vnc]$ cat xstartup #!/bin/sh # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: # unset SESSION_MANAGER # exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -iconic & xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & twm &
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How to view remote UNIX desktop from Microsoft Windows system
Sep 27th
X server is the default Graphical User Interface (GUI) toolkit used in almost all flavors of UNIX family of operating systems and most notably Linux and FreeBSD. The famous desktops are KDE and GNOME. X server toolkit has bulit-in support for remote desktops because of its client and server architecture. X server hides the underlying graphics hardware and presents a unified Application Interface (API) for client programs like KDE and GNOME applications. Unlike Microsoft Windows, the client program can reside in another host and X server can reside on another host. i.e A Windows user with a X server software like More >
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