[CentOS] Vncserver not serving up my gnome desktop, just a fancy terminal!

[Jerry57 (GMail)]

Hello Lee,

  this is working in the sense it opens up a gnome session, but how
  can I configure vncserver to display the current default
  display/session instead?

  jer

Saturday, April 23, 2005, 5:59:28 PM, you wrote:

> I figured this one out, just comment out everything in
> ~/.vnc/xstartup then add:

> gnome-session &

> Lee

> --- Lee Parmeter <leejpar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have the vncserver running on CentOS 4, but when I log
>> in
>> using vncviewer from another box, I don't see my gnome
>> desktop, just a fancy terminal. I suspect I need to edit
>> the ~/.vnc "xstartup file, but what do I add to fix this.
>> On all other distros I have tried, the vncserver serves
>> up
>> my gnome desktop by default.
>> 
>> --
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>> 
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> http://www.linXos.com
> Linux Registered User #337161 

> 'It's free. It works. Duh.'" - Eric Harrison

> The United States is NOT a democracy, it was founded as a Republic!

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