fred smith wrote: > I'm trying to use VNC to connect my home Centos box (up to date centos 5) > to my Centos 4 (also up to date) at work. I have no problem connecting. > The problem occurs after logging in, for every applet in the bottom Gnome > panel I get an error box from which I can choose to remove the applet > from the panel, or just go on. I choose to not delete but to just go on. > After I get a half dozen or so of those, the desktop is fully drawn, > except the bottom panel is completely empty. no desktop switcher, or > anything else. > > I've googled and looked in centos forums and realvnc FAQs and don't > find any reference to such a problem. > > Clues would be appreciated! > > Here's the text from that dialog: > > The panel encountered a problem while loading > "OAFIID:GNOME_howDesktopApplet". > Details: Failed to resolve, or extend > '!prefs_key=/apps/panel/applets/show_desktop_button/ > Prefs;background=none:;orient=up;size=x-small;locked_down=false > > Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration? > > and I get that once for each applet. > > here's the ~/.vnc/xstartup file from the server: > > #!/bin/sh > > # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: > unset SESSION_MANAGER > exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > > [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup > [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources > xsetroot -solid grey > vncconfig -iconic & > xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & > twm & Replace that last line with: exec gnome-session &