Re: vncserver ignoring ~/.vnc/xstartup :(
On Monday 19 November 2001 2:51 am, Jeff wrote:
> Martin Rowe, 2001-Nov-18 22:47 +0000:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm trying to get VNC running on my home box and vncserver sems to be
> > bypassing the xstartup script. Instead of running Blackbox, it pulls
> > up KDE. The .vnc/ session log doesn't report any problems, and I can
> > run xstartup within the VNC window and it runs (just lanches an
> > aterm) fine - just on top of KDE. This has worked fine for me in the
> > past, though on Mandrake, and runs okay at work on Debian (though
> > launched from inetd instead of manually starting each session, and
> > using a login manager, so no xstartup involved).
>
> The only thing I can think of is to make sure you're starting
> vncserver as the user, not as root. The root account may have
> the KDE config.
>
> jc
Hi Jeff
Makes no difference if root or user, though I'm only interested in
getting it to work as a user. As it happens, /root/.vnc/xstartup gets
ignored for root too :(
Regards, Martin
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