Can't get beyond a grey screen when I connect

I've been trying this all day with very limited success. The closest 
I've gotten is at one point I actually got an arrow cursor in the viewer 
window, but mostly I get an X cursor.

I'm running a Debian/Bookworm AMD64 workstation with a Plasma 5 desktop. 
However, I've also got Gnome and XFCE available. I've been trying 
various ~/.vnc/xstartup configurations but nothing seems to work.

I want to connect through an ssh tunnel using port forwarding. I do this 
a lot to connect to Windows workstations through a similar setup - the 
router forwards the ssh port to the Linux server, where port forwarding 
takes me to the actual machine I want to use.

I started with an old one that wanted to run startkde, something that no 
longer exists. I got the furthest when I replaced that line with 
startplasma, I recall. However I couldn't do anything despite the nicer 
cursor.

That xstartup would have looked like this:

#!/bin/sh
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
  /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 &

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &


I've similarly tried a number of xstartups that people have suggested to 
invoke Gnome or XFCE but they haven't even got me an arrow cursor - just 
the X.

I tried ripping out the tightvnc server and running krfb on the 
workstation and using various clients (including krdc) on my laptop 
using both the ssh tunnel and simply connecting to the workstation 
directly over the LAN. I couldn't even get prompted for the VNC password.

So now I'm back with the tightvnc server running. I can get to the 
machine and enter the VNC password, but I can't get a usable desktop.

Any ideas?



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