I have seen variants of this issue logged all over the place, but none of the reported solutions seem to work for me. I am running Fedora 30 as a client under VMWware ESXi and want to access the client using VNC, with Gnome being my preferred desktop. I am using TigerVNC on both ends.
I have installed TigerVNC-server on my client and opened the firewall. I have started the server using:
vncserver :1 And my ~/.vnc/xstartup file is as shown below:
#!/bin/sh export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1 unset SESSION_MANAGER unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -iconic & gnome-panel & gnome-settings-daemon & metacity & nautilus & gnome-terminal & # extra stuff export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="GNOME-Flashback:GNOME" export XDG_MENU_PREFIX="gnome-flashback-" My Gnome is V3.32.2. Note that the above is but one of several variants that I have found and tried - all with equal lack of success :-(
Does anybody have a working solution?
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I finally got it working by changing the --session type to gnome-classic. So my working startup file is now as shown below:
#!/bin/sh export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1 unset SESSION_MANAGER unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -iconic & export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="GNOME-Flashback:GNOME" export XDG_MENU_PREFIX="gnome-flashback-" gnome-session --session=gnome-classic --disable-acceleration-check & Once I made this change it became clear that the checkboxes that I had seen previously were actually the dialog for the VNCConfig application.
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