gnome does not start under realvnc...

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/21/2011 11:23 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote:
> Στις 21/6/2011 18:10, ο/η Ed Greshko έγραψε:
>> On 06/21/2011 10:50 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote:
>>> I think that my crash is related with this bug:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649370
>> Indeed it does....
>>
>> On your question of encryption....  I always ran vnc over an ssh
>> tunnel.  So, I never thought about that.
> What are my alternatives with window managers?
> Since metacity is crashing, what other window manager is available in 
> fedora to run it, and get at least a wm running on this happy, black 
> background with the prompt to logout?
>
>

I was experimenting with this today with vncserver.  I don't know if
RealVnc does things differently, but this is worth the try....

With vncserver you have ~/.vnc/xstartup which will exec
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.  Which, in turn, exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients. 
Because I was lazy and couldn't figure out why variables weren't being
passed/detected properly I made a brute force change to
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.

I changed...

if [ -n "$GSESSION" ]; then
    # by default, we run GNOME.
    exec "$GSESSION"

to...

if [ -n "$GSESSION" ]; then
    # by default, we run GNOME.
    exec "$STARTKDE"

This gave me a KDE session.  (I prefer KDE, always have...)