VNC Desktop on Linux

How to get a window manager running on your VNC Server’, ‘This is pretty simple actually.

First, start the server:

$ vncserver

password:
verify:

vncserver running on computername:1

Now that it\’s running, let\’s kill it.

$ vncserver -kill :1

ok.. now, let\’s config it.

$ vi .vnc/xstartup

At the bottom.. you should have a line like this:

twm &

I\’m going to have it run icewm, so I\’ll change it to this:

icewm-session &
#twm &

That\’s it.. Just save, and start vnc server again.. now you will have IceWM running.. If you want to use kde, just change it to:

startkde &
#twm &

Now, if you want the service to be available on start up, just edit this:

# vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers

and add this:

VNCSERVERS = “1:username 2:username 3:username”

Where username = a valid user account on the machine.

Now, let\’s turn on the service..

# chkconfig vncserver on

and now let\’s start is.

# /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91vncserver start