Re: Can not see my desktop in vnc session that is started up from local display.
H.S. wrote:
> Mumia W.. wrote:
>
>> If connections from localhost are not blocked, this should work.
>> However, I see you're starting a Gnome session; I hope that you're not
>> doing that from within another Gnome session for the same user account.
>>
>> Gnome is a complicated environment with many parts that must be in
>> communication with one another. These parts probably communicate over
>> sockets in /tmp. I'm in Gnome right now, and the sockets I see don't
>> have any display numbers in their names. If two Gnome sessions are
>> running for the same user, how can one session distinguish itself from
>> another?
>>
>> I don't think Gnome can handle two sessions for the same user at the
>> same time. Use something simple like icewm-session, fvwm or fluxbox to
>> manage windows in VNC.
>
> Interesting. I have noticed that if I open a vnc session on a machine
> from a remote machine while I am logged in on the machine locally, my
> keyboard map is screwed up in the vnc session! I am not sure exactly
> what is going wrong, but then I haven't even tried to investigate yet.
> But your comment above may explain that. I will try to logout or kill
> the local gnome session and see if the problem is solved. Or I may just
> start a different manager in the vnc session as you suggest.
>
> thanks,
> ->HS
>
>
I rebooted that machine (runs Ubuntu) and then started a vnc session
again and tried to open a VNC session from a remote machine (runs
Lenny). Same weird keyboard mapping problem. So no, killing the users
and rebooting the machine (there were some upgrades needing rebooting)
did not resolve the problem. Sorry about the noise.
->HS
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