I’m running debian stable on a headless system. I’ve
installed (among others) ‘vncserver.’ However when I run ‘vncserver
–geometry 1024x768’ and connect to the display using the tightvnc
viewer (on a windows client) I get a window with a mottled grey background and
an ‘X’ shaped cursor, but nothing else. I can move the cursor but
neither mouse button seems to do anything – it’s almost as though X
is running but has no windowmanager. I created the file ‘xstartup’
in ~/.vnc and put the following into it: #!/bin/sh wmaker (windowmaker is installed) and changed the permissions to
755, however it made no difference – I still have this unusuable window
when I connect to the vncserver. Here is my vnc log: 07/05/04 09:24:54 Xvnc version 3.3.3r2+tight1.2.2 07/05/04 09:24:54 Copyright (C) AT&T Laboratories 07/05/04 09:24:54 All Rights Reserved. 07/05/04 09:24:54 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for
information on VNC 07/05/04 09:24:54 Desktop name 'X' (debian:1) 07/05/04 09:24:54 Protocol version supported 3.3 07/05/04 09:24:54 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port
5901 07/05/04 09:25:13 Got connection from client 192.168.1.3 07/05/04 09:25:13 Protocol version 3.5 07/05/04 09:25:13 Ignoring minor version mismatch 07/05/04 09:25:15 Pixel format for client 192.168.1.3: 07/05/04 09:25:15 8 bpp, depth 8 07/05/04 09:25:15 true colour: max r 7 g 7 b 3, shift r 0
g 3 b 6 07/05/04 09:25:15 no translation needed 07/05/04 09:25:15 Using tight encoding for client
192.168.1.3 07/05/04 09:25:15 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring
unknown encoding 8 07/05/04 09:25:15 Using compression level 9 for client
192.168.1.3 07/05/04 09:25:15 Enabling X-style cursor updates for client
192.168.1.3 07/05/04 09:25:15 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring
unknown encoding -232 07/05/04 09:25:15 Using image quality level 0 for client
192.168.1.3 07/05/04 09:25:15 Enabling LastRect protocol extension for
client 192.168.1.3 07/05/04 09:25:15 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring
unknown encoding -223 07/05/04 09:25:23 Client 192.168.1.3 gone 07/05/04 09:25:23 Statistics: 07/05/04 09:25:23 key events received 0, pointer events
278 07/05/04 09:25:23 framebuffer updates 1, rectangles 14,
bytes 1007 07/05/04 09:25:23 LastRect markers 1, bytes 12 07/05/04 09:25:23 cursor shape updates 1, bytes 82 07/05/04 09:25:23 tight rectangles 12, bytes 913 07/05/04 09:25:23 raw bytes equivalent 786444, compression
ratio 861.384447 I’m sure it’s something simple, but can anyone
enlighten me? Does the debian vncserver package not use xstartup or something? Thanks! |