Hoary and vncserver

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:54:20 -0500, John DeCarlo <johndecarlo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 1.  When you type in "vncserver :1" to start a session, are you in the
> graphical environment, a terminal, or with gdm shut down?
> 
> 2. What type of system are you starting VNC with?  Another Hoary or
> Warty or what?


The process (which worked on Warty) is that I ssh username at hostname
from a laptop running Windows to my PC running Ubuntu over an 802.11g
network. When I get the shell prompt, I type vncserver.  I get a
message from VNC along the lines of:

New 'X' desktop is gandalf:1

Starting applications specified in /etc/X11/Xsession
Log file is /home/esullivan/.vnc/gandalf:1.log

>From the Windows side, I run Ultr at vnc. 


> 
> 3.  What shows up in your ~/.vnc directory?  Have you checked the log?
>  What does your xstartup file contain?

I don't have an xstartup file. I haven't needed it. In Warty vnc
starts up with all my usual stuff. My ~/.vnc/gandalf:1.log has some
errors in it, like this:

04/03/05 22:21:15 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unknown encoding type
9
04/03/05 22:21:15 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unknown encoding type
8
04/03/05 22:21:15 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unknown encoding type
7

Hope that helps. Might this be an UTF-8 issue?

-Eamonn