Re: VNC problems

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, David Fox wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote:
>
> > It should be executable AFAIK, what does the log say?
> >
> > $ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup
>
> #!/bin/sh
> xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
> xsetroot -solid grey
> xterm  -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP desktop" &
> exec startkde
>
> > $ cat ~/.vnc/*log
>
> 27/12/08 15:13:17 Got connection from client 198.144.195.188
> 27/12/08 15:13:17 Using protocol version 3.8
> 27/12/08 15:13:17 Enabling TightVNC protocol extensions
> 27/12/08 15:13:21 Full-control authentication passed by 198.144.195.188
> 27/12/08 15:13:22 Pixel format for client 198.144.195.188:
> 27/12/08 15:13:22   32 bpp, depth 24, little endian
> 27/12/08 15:13:22   true colour: max r 255 g 255 b 255, shift r 16 g 8 b 0
> 27/12/08 15:13:22   no translation needed
> 27/12/08 15:13:22 Using tight encoding for client 198.144.195.188
> 27/12/08 15:13:22 Using compression level 1 for client 198.144.195.188
> 27/12/08 15:13:22 Using image quality level 6 for client 198.144.195.188
> 27/12/08 15:13:22 Enabling X-style cursor updates for client 198.144.195.188
> 27/12/08 15:13:22 Enabling cursor position updates for client 198.144.195.188
> 27/12/08 15:13:22 Enabling LastRect protocol extension for client 198.144.195.18
> 8
> 27/12/08 15:14:14 KbdAddEvent: unknown KeySym 0xffeb - allocating KeyCode 89
> 27/12/08 15:21:54 Client 198.144.195.188 gone
> 27/12/08 15:21:54 Statistics:
> 27/12/08 15:21:54   key events received 14, pointer events 48
> 27/12/08 15:21:54   framebuffer updates 3, rectangles 757, bytes 23760
> 27/12/08 15:21:54     LastRect markers 3, bytes 36
> 27/12/08 15:21:54     cursor shape updates 1, bytes 82
> 27/12/08 15:21:54     cursor position updates 1, bytes 12
> 27/12/08 15:21:54     tight rectangles 752, bytes 23630
> 27/12/08 15:21:54   raw bytes equivalent 6032676, compression ratio 255.297334
>
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I use regular VNC, not tight VNC; however, you may want to try isolating 
the window manager, use twm (install it first if you don't have it, 
comment out exec startkde) and replace it with:

In xstartup, comment out:
#exec startkde

Add:
/usr/bin/twm &

Then start a new vnc session, still a black screen?

vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768