Re: hard to get past 1st screen

On my classroom machines, I generally install the xfce desktop, and have 
the vnc use that instead of the gnome3 desktop. Some of the fancy things 
cause problems.

You modify the .vnc/xstartup file to look like this.
#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
exec  /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc #   X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
#vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
startxfce4 &
#twm &



On 2 Sep 2016 at 12:32, Jeff Smith wrote:

From:	Jeff Smith <[email protected]>
Date sent:	Fri, 2 Sep 2016 12:32:18 -0400
Subject:	Re: hard to get past 1st screen
To:	"Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]>
Copies to:	[email protected]

> From:	&#160; &#160;Jeff Smith &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt;<br>
> Subject:	&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; hard to get past 1st screen<br>
> To:	&#160; &#160; &#160;<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]<wbr>rge.net</a><br>
> 
> I am getting closer.I can click on menu bar choices but not on non-menu bar places. For 
> instance, I can get to "Terminal" from menu bar but not to the contents of the terminal when the 
> terminal opens.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Jeff Smith <[email protected]>  wrote:
>     That was it. Thanks.
> 
> 
>     On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Michael D. Setzer II 
>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>     Sounds like the screen saver blind. You move the mouse to the bottom
>     center of screen, click and hold, then drag the blind up to show what 
>     was
>     behind the blind.
>     
>     They put that in a couple versions ago, and it took some time to figure it 
>     out.
>     Don't know how VNC would show it, but on the real screen it shows a 
>     little
>     arrow going up in the bottom center to kind of give you the ideal.
>     
>     On 2 Sep 2016 at 9:44, Jeff Smith wrote:
>     
>     From: Jeff Smith <[email protected]>
>     Date sent:   Fri, 2 Sep 2016 09:44:27 -0400
>     Subject:    hard to get past 1st screen
>     To:  [email protected]
>     
>     >
>     > I am trying to VNC to a Linux VM that has been set up for VNC. I can 
>     ssh into the command line
>     > interface of this VM with no problem. I can VNC to the same VM but 
>     the first thing I see is a
>     > colorfully tiled window with a date and time. I cannot figure out what 
>     combination of keys bring
>     > me past this tiled window. Has anyone seen this before?
>     
> 
>     +----------------------------------------------------------+
>      Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
>      Guam Community College Computer Center
>      mailto:[email protected]
>      mailto:[email protected]
>      Guam - Where America's Day Begins
>      G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
>     +----------------------------------------------------------+
>     
>     http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original)
>     Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471
>     Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes
>     (Total Hours: 287,489)
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> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Jeffrey Smith, PhD
>     Chief Systems Engineer
>     Multi Agency Collaboration Environment (MACE) 
>     Sierra Nevada Corporation
>     3076 Centreville Road, Herndon, VA 20171
>     703-464-6434 (Office)
>     603-566-0124 (Cell)
>     [email protected]
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeffrey Smith, PhD
> Chief Systems Engineer
> Multi Agency Collaboration Environment (MACE) 
> Sierra Nevada Corporation
> 3076 Centreville Road, Herndon, VA 20171
> 703-464-6434 (Office)
> 603-566-0124 (Cell)
> [email protected]


+----------------------------------------------------------+
  Michael D. Setzer II -  Computer Science Instructor      
  Guam Community College  Computer Center                  
  mailto:[email protected]                            
  mailto:[email protected]
  Guam - Where America's Day Begins                        
  G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer 
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+----------------------------------------------------------+

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original)
Number of Seti Units Returned:  19,471
Processing time:  32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes
(Total Hours: 287,489)

BOINC@HOME CREDITS
ABC         16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN   111076189.788695
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