Re: Can't get beyond a grey screen when I connect

Michael Setzer reminded me that he posted a working xstartup from his 
system in a reply to an earlier message:

#!/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 $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
startxfce4 &

This seems to work. I've finally got a working remote session.

Thanks Michael.


On 2022-09-11 18:25, Gary Dale wrote:
> 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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