VNC Configuration
Friday, October 21st, 2005So I don’t know why I haven’t bothered to look into this more, but I use VNC occasionally and noticed (a long time ago) that the x session that’s started through it wasn’t the full blown gnome desktop. While a bummer, it wasn’t that big of a deal. The fix was a simple one. TightVNC gets its profile settings from a .vnc folder in which contains a ‘xstartup’ bash script that runs when the server is started to load user settings, etc. The line I needed to change was:
x-window-manager &
to instead:
gnome-session &
A quick restart of the vnc server and back to the nice gnome environment. I don’t know why I didn’t bother sorting that out before…..