tightvnc black screen server Fedora 13 , client windows XP

Question

I get a black screen with the above setup. I have tried RealVNC and TigerVNC clients too on windows with the same result. Any ideas? Thanks

Answer 1

It's possible your VNC server is running, but there is nothing running in it; no window manager, no desktop environment (GNOME), etc.

That probably means you ran the VNC server directly without using some of the friendly wrapper scripts such as vncserver. For example, if you run Xtightvnc directly, that's what you'll get.

For example, on Ubuntu I usually start a VNC session (or port 5901) like this which starts the VNC/X-server and the normal desktop environment:

vncserver -geometry 1024x768 :1

On Ubuntu vncserver is a link to tightvncserver. If you don't have vncserver on Fedora 13 then try tightvncserver.