Bruce, You need to edit the xstartup file in the .vnc directory in your home directory. There is a line that reads something like "twm &". This is the window manager that will be used in a vnc session. You should be able to change it to gnome-wm or whatever window manager you want to use. Remember though, that all the display information has to be sent over the network, so vnc uses a minimalist approach to speed things up... ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Scientist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ Phone: 973-972-5034 Fax: 973-972-7412 Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bruce Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:16 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: trying to get gnome to run!!! arrgghh!! forgive me in advance if this is the wrong group! i have rh 8.0. i'm trying to get gnome to come up. when i remotely login using VNC i get the xterm. as i'm not a linux guru... does anyone have any really good/quick suggestions as to what i might need to do to get gnome to start. the "rpm -qa | grep gnome" provides a number of gnome related rpms. when i installed the linux awhile ago, i selected gnome as the user interface (or i thought i did...) the various suggestions that i've seen via google haven't really given me any useful insight.... any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks bruce bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
