>>>>> "MF" == Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: MF> I'm especially sorry I put that in there now that my one and only MF> reply is to that specific part. :( Well, you did ask. But I checked the current rawhide VNC SRPM and found the vnc-xclients.patch: --- vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/vncserver.xclients 2003-08-06 11:15:30.000000000 +0100 +++ vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/vncserver 2003-08-06 11:16:41.000000000 +0100 @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ $defaultXStartup = ("#!/bin/sh\n\n". + "# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:\n". + "# unset SESSION_MANAGER\n". + "# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc\n\n". + "[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup\n". "[ -r \$HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb \$HOME/.Xresources\n". "xsetroot -solid grey\n". "vncconfig -iconic &\n". which is close to what you have. I suspect that Red Hat is just trying to avoid changing established behavior. - J<