xfce & vnc

[David Emerson]

Edit the ~/.vnc/xstartup file for the user who'll be running the vnc 
server.  Just replace whatever is in there with /usr/bin/wmaker or your 
windowmaker of choice.



> Ah! Finally a good lean, quick desktop environment that isn't sorely
> lacking in features! I've got xfce up and running on my PowerCenter
> (150MHz PPC 604e, 64MB RAM), and it's really quite nice on such a slow
> machine.
>
> One question, I'm trying to set up my machine so that I can start xfce
> in a VNC session. For switching between KDE & gnome, all I have to do
> is edit .Xclients so that startkde gets run before gnome-session. So I
> tried setting it up so that startxfce4 gets executed instead, but when
> I connect using a VNC client, all I get is a X11 root window & the X
> cursor. Since startxfce4 also checks for whether an X session is
> running (by seeing if DISPLAY is set, apparently), I tried having it
> skip that check, but still no luck. ideas?
>
> thanks,
> peter