TUTORIAL: VNC

Now let's start vncserver as a service.

[tchung@tchung101 tchung]$ sudo /sbin/service vncserver start
Starting VNC server: 1:tchung                              [  OK  ]
[tchung@tchung101 tchung]$

Take a look at the contents of .vnc directory now. You should have something similiar to following.

[tchung@tchung101 tchung]$ cd .vnc
[tchung@tchung101 .vnc]$ ls
passwd  tchung101:1.log  tchung101:1.pid  xstartup
[tchung@tchung101 .vnc]$

If you edit the script called xstartup, you will notice following comment in red.
Uncomment those two lines in red as shown below!!! Otherwise, you will get nothing but grey screen.

#!/bin/sh
                                                                                                    
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

                                                                                                    
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &