using xinetd to start Xvnc

[Björn Persson]

Christian J. Miller wrote:
> Your idea to simply fire-up a vncserver from my desktop by running
> "vncserver :22" (for example) is a very good idea.  When I tried, I only
> got as far as X starting -- no desktop.  I investigated the log and I
> saw a line indicating that he thinks I already had a session started --
> gnome-session in this case, and therefore a desktop never got going.

Did you have Gnome running on the VNC server that was started from Xinetd, 
and Gnome was also supposed to start on the VNC server you started manually? 
I've heard Gnome gets confused if the same user tries to run it on several 
desktops at the same time. Other people on this list know more about this.

Can you access the machine in text mode (with telnet or SSH or something), 
and run "vncserver :22", just to see if it works then?

Bjvrn Persson