Hi, No replies in two weeks. Was it a stupid question? Is this the wrong list? Am I completely on the wrong track trying to use a vnc viewer to remotely view a gnome session? I'll dig some more, but I think I must be googling the wrong keywords because I didn't get anywhere last time. All the best. Duncan -----Original Message----- From: gnome-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:gnome-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Duncan Garland Sent: 30 January 2010 16:45 To: gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Remote login Hi, I'm trying login to a Debian Lenny box from a Window XP box. I've got dumb terminal acess working properly, but I'd like to be able to access my desktop as well. I've installed vnc4server on the Debian, and tightvncviewer on the Windows box. If I run vnc4server -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 24 on the Debian, login in via tightvncviewer and type gnome-session, it works after a fashion. The Desktop comes up, and I can access items such as the wastebasket. However, I can't access the top menu with Applications, Places and System on it. It's frozen. I'm sure this must be easy to correct, but I don't normally get involved in this sort of thing and I don't really understand the terminology. There are quite a few error messages on startup: duncan@debian1:~$ gnome-session SESSION_MANAGER=local/debian1:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4085 ** Message: another SSH agent is running at: /tmp/ssh-fwxDXn3909/agent.3909 ** (gnome-settings-daemon:4092): WARNING **: numlock: XkbQueryExtension returned an error ** (gnome-settings-daemon:4092): WARNING **: Neither XKeyboard not Xfree86's keyboard extensions are available, no way to support keyboard autorepeat rate settings ** (gnome-settings-daemon:4092): WARNING **: Unable to start a11y_keyboard manager: XKB functionality is disabled. ** (gnome-settings-daemon:4092): WARNING **: Failed to open file '/etc/gnome/config/General.ad': No such file or directory Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/duncan/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file '/home/duncan/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms': No such file or directory Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension. Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":1.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager. Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/duncan/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file '/home/duncan/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms': No such file or directory Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension. Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":1.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager. Initializing gnome-mount extension seahorse nautilus module initialized Does anybody know how to fix this? The other issue is that this method requires me to have already logged in as myself using the dumb terminal. It would be useful to be able to access the default login desktop screen which appear if I plug in a screen directly. How do I do that? Is there an idiot's guide to this sort of thing? Many thanks Duncan _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
