Vnc

[f4_yellowjacket]

Having a bit of a VNC. Does anyone out there use VNC? I have it installed and running on my Red Hat 7.2 box but when I connect I get a "sorta" blank desktop and when I click I get a fairly useless menu.

Any Ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks
Mike

[ferreter]

Are you using VNC as a client or a server?

[f4_yellowjacket]

I'm have the server installed on my Red Hat server. and I use the client or web Browse to connect to is.

thanks
Mike

[cowanrl]

That is normal. VNC uses the twm window manager which is very sparse.
From the menu you mentioned, open a terminal window. From there, you can launch any of the GUI tools you are used to using in RH 7.2. Execute neat for the Network Configuration GUI tool. Execute serviceconf to get the Service Configuration utility. If you execute nautilus, you'll get pretty much a default RH desktop. The only thing you won't get is the control panel at the bottom. If you know the command to open the GUI tool, you can use it with VNC.

I've heard guys say that you can change it so VNC uses Gnome instead of twm but I was never successful at doing it. Since I only used it as a remote configuration tool, any of the options I mentioned above were always satisfactory for me.

[netx2]

If you install VNCSERVER via the VNC RPM available from Red Hat's site, the only piece that you need to change is in the file /etc/sysconfig/vncservers. There is a line you will need to uncomment and replace myusername with the username that you wish to connect with. Next, from a terminal window do vncpasswd, which of course sets the password. then service vncserver start to get it going. From the Services control panel you can set it to start when you boot. With this RPM, it actually makes it nice to setup.


you would be able to connect using hostname:1

I Hope this helped.
Good Luck to you.

[f4_yellowjacket]

Thank you very much it's working now. is there anyway to remove an old broken service? I had installed it before and it's now gone but left the service behind.

Thanks
Mike