On Wed, 31 May 2006, Jordan Peacock wrote: > Meaning they authenticate and bring up an X session. What I see is a > grayish background with the X server's 'x' cursor, but no login screen, > nothing of use anywhere to be seen. > > I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do, as most complaints regarding vnc > are getting it up and running or authenticating it, and no one is > responding on irc, so I figured I would test my luck here. > > Does this sound familiar to any of you who have used vnc? What does it > mean? How can I change it to get a login? It is very familiar and certainly a RealVNC FAQ. If you want to run Gnome or KDE, you can do that, but you have to set up your ~/.vnc/xstartup properly. I've been running Gnome like this: #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -nowin & exec autocutsel & /usr/local/bin/rxvt -geometry 80x51+78+25 -ls -T "`whoami`@`hostname`" & exec gnome-session &