Re: [SLUG] VNC to remote machine

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Wed Dec 15 2004 - 23:07:42 EST


Chuck Hast wrote:
> Folks,
> I have a remote machine I am VNC'ing to. When I hit it it starts up KDE, I want
> it to start up Fluxbox. I have gone in and set up the root user to run
> fluxbox rather
> than kde, and when I log in locally and start up X it starts up
> fluxbox, but when
> I access it using VNC it starts up KDE. This is not a real fast
> machine, fluxbox is
> great, but KDE is a slug (no pun intended) .
>
> I am trying to figure out what needs to be whacked in order for fluxbox to come
> up. I am using Knoppix as the distro. This is the xinit.rc file for root.
>

Look in your user .vnc directory for a file called vncstartup. It's
similar to the xinit, but specifically for VNC.
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