[vox-tech] vncserver as user

[David Margolis]

command line: vncserver -geometry 800x600 -depth 16
~/.vnc/xstartup: /usr/local/bin/wmaker (but i've tried several combos
including various adaptions of the default twm version)

dave

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Rod Roark wrote:

> What's on your vncserver command line?
>
> What's in ~/.vnc/xstartup and in whatever it invokes?
>
> -- Rod
>    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
>
> On Friday 02 August 2002 09:26 pm, David Margolis wrote:
> > hello,
> > i can run vncserver as root no problem.  i'm missing some permission/xauth
> > detail somewhere as i can't run the server as a user (which seems like a
> > better idea than running as root...
> >
> > anyway, i know there are some people here with vnc experience so it's
> > probabaly an easy one.
> >
> > here's the (hopefully) relavent line from my log file:
> >
> > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 105
> > /usr/local/bin/wmaker fatal error: could not open display "optimus:1"
> >
> > searching google for various parts of these errors hasn't helped except to
> > tell me that people who speak other languages have seen it and that people
> > who post to random forums never get responded to :>
> >
> > note: i can run x directly on this box as the user in question
> > thanks,
> >
> > davem
>
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