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  • 1.  AIX 6 vnc with Gnome

    Posted Mon March 21, 2011 12:48 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    I need an VNC xstartup file that works for AIX 6 and Gnome. Any advice.

    (If you can, can you cc kgoldman@us.ibm.com, as I'm not sure I configured this forum correctly.)

    I have Gnome installed, as I can run it locally.
    I have vnc installed, as I can remotely run a KDE desktop.
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  • 2.  Re: AIX 6 vnc with Gnome

    Posted Tue March 22, 2011 02:03 PM

    Originally posted by: MisterX


    have you tried something like this in your ~/.vnc/xstartup file:

    xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
    #twm &
    gnome-session &
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  • 3.  Re: AIX 6 vnc with Gnome

    Posted Tue March 22, 2011 03:53 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    I tried your xstartup exactly. I got a Gnome splash screen, but it was not responsive. There was an xterm behind it. A few minutes later, a screen saver started! When I clicked, the screen saver disappeared, and I was left with the undecorated xterm on a gray wallpaper.

    That is, no menu bar, toolbar, etc.

    For fun, I typed 'gnome-session' in that xterm and get continuing errors:

    Error: Cairo 1.4.10 does not yet support the requested image format
    ...
    The assert subroutine failed: NOT_REACHED, file cairo-image-surface.c, line 199.

    I don't know if this is relevant, since Gnome works locally. Perhaps there's another vnc startup script that needs to be updated. Could you send a working 'vncserver'?
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