Linux VNCserver, connected without any panel

[James Weatherall]

Kirk,

Check that you're not already running a copy of Gnome somewhere, against the
same user home directory - recent versions of Gnome have a bug that prevents
multiple copies running as the same user, as far as I'm aware.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Kirk Lau
> Sent: 27 September 2005 22:59
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Linux VNCserver, connected without any panel
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Not sure if this happened to anyone, i've check the achieve, 
> but dont' see
> anyone post this before.
> I ran a vncserver session under a user (non-root) in debian 
> 3.1(also tried
> with RH7.3 and RHEL3)
> i connect from my windows machine without any problem.. 
> except on gnome (or
> metacity to be more exact) I don't see any bottom or top 
> panel (or taskbar
> if u may call it) i tried to switch to other desktop, such as 
> mwm, or even
> kde, same thing.
> is it suppose to be like that?
> or am i missing something?
> 
> also, side question, i don't even have right click manual when i use
> metacity/gnome in vnc, any way(s) to fix that too? (side 
> question is because
> is not as important that the main question)
> 
> Thanks very much in advance!
> 
> -kkl
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