Justin Cataldo wrote: > Ah I see. Well that should work. It's obviously connecting since you get > the dot. > > I've had similar issues with TightVNC before. It sits for ages saying > it is > doing the initial screen draw, but never connects. > > I'd suggest trying RealVNC (realvnc.com). > > *VNC Free Edition for Linux (x86) > http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi The version RH ships does not work - [summer at bilby ~]$ vncviewer emu VNC viewer for X version 4.0 - built Mar 31 2005 17:48:27 Copyright (C) 2002-2004 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. Fri Mar 23 21:09:18 2007 CConn: connected to host emu port 5900 CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.889 CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8 Fri Mar 23 21:09:23 2007 TXImage: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 16. CConn: Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222 CConn: Using ZRLE encoding Fri Mar 23 21:09:24 2007 CConn: Throughput 5125 kbit/s - changing to hextile encoding CConn: Throughput 5125 kbit/s - changing to full colour CConn: Using pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565 CConn: Using hextile encoding unknown message type 255 main: unknown message type [summer at bilby ~]$ However, I'm getting along just swimmingly with the TightVND included in OpenSUSE. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list