honestly, it seems that tightvnc is made not to work for some people, me
being one of them.

first, i was having issues with compiling, fortunately i found packages.
then there was a path issue, then there was the font issue. i resolved
these two, but the core issue, that being the display showing as nothign
more than a grey screen, eventhough CDE runs perfectly on the actual system,
still prevails.

i've searched far and wide, but still i have not found a solution to this
problem.

does anyone know what i can do to get CDE, not this useless grey screen to
appear on my vnc sessions?

"Sameer" <ssnewsgroups@hotmail.com> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|first, i was having issues with compiling, fortunately i found packages.
|then there was a path issue, then there was the font issue. i resolved
|these two, but the core issue, that being the display showing as nothign
|more than a grey screen, eventhough CDE runs perfectly on the actual system,
|still prevails.
|
|i've searched far and wide, but still i have not found a solution to this
|problem.
|
|does anyone know what i can do to get CDE, not this useless grey screen to
|appear on my vnc sessions?

Sounds like you've started an X server - that's what all X servers do
if you give them nothing to display - try setting your DISPLAY to the
VNC screen and running /usr/dt/bin/Xsession.

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Sameer wrote:

> does anyone know what i can do to get CDE, not this useless grey screen to
> appear on my vnc sessions?

Have you tried NXServer? http://www.nomachine.com

My Gnome2 session to a headless e4500:
http://www.mail.ac/users/kevin/desk.jpg

-Bruno

"Sameer" <ssnewsgroups@hotmail.com> writes:
> does anyone know what i can do to get CDE, not this useless grey screen to
> appear on my vnc sessions?

Here is a suggestion for VNC that comes with the Software Companion CD
(this is for an older version, might need adjustments for newers):

--- /opt/sfw/bin/vncserver.orig Wed Mar 27 15:05:46 2002
+++ /opt/sfw/bin/vncserver Thu Aug 1 01:12:51 2002
@@ -40,11 +40,16 @@
$xauthorityFile = "$ENV{HOME}/.Xauthority";

$defaultXStartup
- = ("#!/bin/sh\n\n".
- "xrdb \$HOME/.Xresources\n".
- "xsetroot -solid grey\n".
- "xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title \"\$VNCDESKTOP Desktop\" &\n".
- "twm &\n");
+ = ("#!/usr/bin/ksh -ap\n\n".
+ "SESSIONTYPE=altDt\n".
+ "SDT_ALT_SESSION='/usr/dt/bin/dtsession -norestore'\n".
+ "SDT_ALT_HELLO=/usr/bin/true\n".
+ "DTXSERVERLOCATION=remote\n".
+ "/usr/dt/bin/Xsession &\n\n".
+ "#xrdb \$HOME/.Xresources\n".
+ "#xsetroot -solid grey\n".
+ "#xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title \"\$VNCDESKTOP Desktop\" &\n".
+ "#twm &\n");

chop($host = `uname -n`);

@@ -94,7 +99,7 @@
if (!(-e "$vncUserDir/passwd") || ($mode & 077)) {
warn "\nYou will require a password to access your desktops.\n\n";
system("vncpasswd $vncUserDir/passwd");
- if (($? >> 8) != 0) {
+ if (($? >> 8) == 1) {
exit 1;
}
}
@@ -143,6 +148,7 @@
$cmd .= " -rfbwait 120000";
$cmd .= " -rfbauth $vncUserDir/passwd";
$cmd .= " -rfbport $vncPort";
+$cmd .= " -nolisten local";

# Add font path and color database stuff here, e.g.:
#


Markus

man this was a bear to get working, but i did manage to get it working. i
had to add things to the path, add the font path, and then i had to make the
x-something file in .vnc/ because the installation didn't make it. then to
top it off i had to run vnc with some -querry localhost or some option.

it wasn't a fun activity, but i managed.

thanks though...

* Sameer wrote:
> first, i was having issues with compiling, fortunately i found packages.
> then there was a path issue, then there was the font issue. i resolved
> these two, but the core issue, that being the display showing as nothign
> more than a grey screen, eventhough CDE runs perfectly on the actual system,
> still prevails.

Assuming the grey screen is actually the default X server rootweave,
this probably means that you've managed to run a server. Now you need
to get some applications to run. This either means that you start
them by some startup script - for the VNC we have, which I don't think
is tightvnc but a semi-recent realVNC one, there's some fairly obvious
way of doing this - or that you point the server at something which
talks XDMCP which will then do its thing. I have a hacked together
script which does this (again, for realVNC). Mail me if you want it.

--tim