singularity
05-21-2003, 06:27 PM
Not sure if this is the right forum but I think the problem is with KDE(3.1 I think).
Running Mandrake 9.1 and tightVNC and trying to connect with WinXP using tightVNC.
I can start the vnc server from the command line using vncserver, but when I connect to the server the desktop starts to load. Howver, the icons begin to disappear, as well as the task bar, and eventually the desktop is blank with only the backrgound remaining. I cant right click and the cursor flashes from the wait icon to the pointer.
I have tried to connect to the Linux box with out any users being logged in but it didn't help.
It would seem, from reading other threads here, that KDE doesn't like have multiple users logged into it at the same time or have multiple copies of it self running at once. So, is there anyway to make VNC run Gnome or some other window manager instead, assuming that KDE is the problem?
EDIT: Well I managed to fix it my self by having VNC load up Gnome instead of KDE (thanks Google!).
So any one know how to tunnel a vnc client on a WinXP machine using puTTY to a VNC server on a Linux machine?
Running Mandrake 9.1 and tightVNC and trying to connect with WinXP using tightVNC.
I can start the vnc server from the command line using vncserver, but when I connect to the server the desktop starts to load. Howver, the icons begin to disappear, as well as the task bar, and eventually the desktop is blank with only the backrgound remaining. I cant right click and the cursor flashes from the wait icon to the pointer.
I have tried to connect to the Linux box with out any users being logged in but it didn't help.
It would seem, from reading other threads here, that KDE doesn't like have multiple users logged into it at the same time or have multiple copies of it self running at once. So, is there anyway to make VNC run Gnome or some other window manager instead, assuming that KDE is the problem?
EDIT: Well I managed to fix it my self by having VNC load up Gnome instead of KDE (thanks Google!).
So any one know how to tunnel a vnc client on a WinXP machine using puTTY to a VNC server on a Linux machine?