Can't get to display screen

[evets dranem]

Jana Nguyen wrote:

> John Aldrich wrote:
>
>> You dont' have a window manager (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, IceWM, etc) running.
>>
> I have a window manager (Gnome) running on the vnc server side.
>
>> One
>> question:
>> How are you invoking the VNC Server? Are you starting it from a
>> command line
>> from an SSH or Telnet session?
>>
> I launch the vnc viewer on my windows xp that was created after
> running the vnc setup.
>
>> If so, check your .vnc folder and look for a
>> file called "xstartup" and make sure it looks something like this:
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> # Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script
>> exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>>  
>>
> Yep, it looks like that.
>
> Anymore ideas to my problem?
> Thanks,
> Jana
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jana Nguyen [mailto:jnguyen "at" ncmir.ucsd.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:40 PM
>> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
>> Subject: Can't get to display screen
>>
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> After entering the ip address of the vnc server and password on the
>> vnc client to connect. This authenticate fine, but it gives me a
>> blank grey screen with only 2 radio button after authentication:
>>
>> 1) Send clipboard to viewer
>> 2) Send primary selection to viewers
>>
>> I am running the vnc server Xnvcn version 4.0b4 on Red hat linux
>> enterprise 3 workstation, and vnc client 4.1.1 (free edition)  on
>> windows xp.  May I ask why am I getting the problem above and how to
>> solve it?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Jana
>> _______________________________________________
>
When that happens I use a terminal session finding out which display is used
and type
twm -d :1   
if it is display 1  ;-0
and I get menus at least
steve