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I have seen variants of this issue logged all over the place, but none of the reported solutions seem to work for me. I am running Fedora 30 as a client under VMWware ESXi and want to access the client using VNC, with Gnome being my preferred desktop. I am using TigerVNC on both ends.
I have installed TigerVNC-server on my client and opened the firewall. I have started the server using:
vncserver :1
And my ~/.vnc/xstartup file is as shown below:
#!/bin/sh
export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
gnome-panel &
gnome-settings-daemon &
metacity &
nautilus &
gnome-terminal &
# extra stuff
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="GNOME-Flashback:GNOME"
export XDG_MENU_PREFIX="gnome-flashback-"
My Gnome is V3.32.2. Note that the above is but one of several variants that I have found and tried - all with equal lack of success :-(
Does anybody have a working solution?
OK, I managed to make some major progress by installing the MATE desktop and following the instructions here: https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_28&p=desktop&f=6. I had previously followed the similar instructions for GNOME but with no success. Looks like gnome 3.x might be the issue. I'm still getting lots of errors in the log file, but I can probably address those incrementally. But at least I can now see the desktop :-)
– Andy – 2019-09-10T10:10:18.023Do not start apps manually and let
gnome-session
do its work! Putgnome-session --session=gnome-flashback-metacity --disable-acceleration-check &
after exporting env and remove lines fromgnome-panel
tognome-terminal
. – muktupavels – 2019-09-10T21:19:29.880OK, I've done that, but now all I get is a grey screen with a series of check boxes, such as "Accept clipboard from viewers", "Also set primary selection" and a couple more. Wish I knew how to include images here :-( – Andy – 2019-09-12T08:35:54.570