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I tried some tricks with lxde and file editing, and it only worked once, then it was black screen.. purged all that. (I wound up running two separate desktops.. ubuntu for glish, and whatever lxde was for vnc.. 18 is ram hungry enough.)

Step 3: Update the ~/.vnc/xstartup file. Take your favorite editor and edit this file. Mine is vim. So I run the following command. vim ~/.vnc/xstartup. Add the following lines to the file. gnome-panel & gnome-settings-daemon & metacity & nautilus & Step 4: Restart VNC Server. Kill the vncserver. vncserver -kill :1 Start the vncserver. vncserver :1

13 Answers 13 · Step 1: Install Gnome Panel · Step 2: The xstartup file needs to be executable · Step 3: Update the ~/.vnc/xstartup file · Step 4: ...

26.02.2020 · Ubuntu Re: VNC woes - can connect but see a grey screen The gray root window means that X/windows is running, but usually either the WM or DE weren't started. If the WM was started, you can click the mouse anywhere on the root window to see a menu. I haven't used VNC in a very long time after discovering the NX protocol.

I just loaded Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop, installed xcfe4 and tight vnc server. i am able to connect to the Linux box from my windows machine ...

Glish is nice and all.. but it's also not. I've run the guides to use VNCserver and viewer.. older distro's no problem, 12 was brilliant, ...

Install ubuntu-desktop and VNC server ... ubuntu-desktop #Install VNC server sudo apt-get install vnc4server #Install ... Fix the VNC grey screen issue.

31.10.2015 · I'm trying to install VNC server on Ubuntu 14 LTS. I installed the "vnc4server" package and started vncserver simply by: ... i got the session and i am trying to connect to that via my vnc viewer but i see gray empty screen. how can i configure it in order to show normal desktop in the session? ubuntu ubuntu-14.04 vnc vnc-server vnc ...

Hi, I have been trying to follow some tutorials to get the VNC server running. All that the result currently is that I get a gray screen.

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16.04tightvncservervnc. Greeting. I am on ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It is an amazon EC2 instance. I got grey screen upon installing and starting the vncserver

I had my VNC connection working well between my office's Ubuntu and my home Ubuntu (both 18.04). The connection basically works with vnc4server ...

10.05.2020 · I get a gray screen with a mouse pointer (which I can move), but no other options, instead of the standard X session. My xstartup is very basic: #!/bin/bash startxfce4 & but it worked well before! Nevertheless, I tried to change it according to various solutions found on the web, but still I get the grey screen.

Nov 01, 2021 · Show activity on this post. I followed this guide to try to connect to my Ubuntu 20.04 machine from my Windows machine; installed tightVNC, changed the xstartup file to show the default Gnome desktop. I start the server with vncserver -geometry 1920x1080 -depth 24. When I try to connect with VNC viewer however, I see only a blank grey screen.

24.01.2020 · I found a config from: How to make VNC Server work with ubuntu-desktop without xfce. export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1 # unset SESSION_MANAGER # unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ... VNC grey screen (Ubuntu 16.04, TightVNC, Xfce4) 0. ubuntu VNC from my iphone Grey screen. 5.

You see a gray screen if the desktop environment of the remote computer requires capabilities that are not available to the X server ...

Installing VNC is straightforward, until it doesn't really work as you see a blank grey screen when viewing ...

Mar 16, 2011 · I have installed vnc4server. Code: sudo aptitude install vnc4server xinetd. Then I did: Code: sudo vim ~/.vnc/xstartup. And uncommented the top two lines that are recommended to uncomment. Code: # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc ...

Sep 27, 2020 · I have a droplet on Digital ocean. I can access the ubuntu's GUI from there just fine. I can ssh from putty. However, I can't make this gray screen go away when accessing from VNC. I have tigervnc installed. Tested different xstartup settings from Ubuntu 16, 18 and now 20. Nothing works except for xfce4.

Aug 24, 2018 · I've been using VNC for many years but I don't know why this happens sometimes. With a new Ubuntu 16.04 machine, I first tried using Vino. It worked well, but I decided it is rather slow, so I decided to use TightVNC with the Xfce4 window manger. However I get this "grey screen" (I have experienced it before couple of times..) again. My ...