Initializing built-in extension X-Resource Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension Underlying X server release 11500000, The X.Org Foundation Since I mentioned it, here's what's in my VNC logs ( /root/.vnc/:1.log): Xvnc TigerVNC 1.2.80 - built 06:14:52Ĭopyright (C) 1999-2011 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt) It seems like it must not be finding my window or desktop manager or something (my terminology might be off - please correct me if it is) - but my script said to launch gnome, and the VNC logs didn't indicate any issue, so shouldn't I see something other than a gray rectangle? or some other way of doing anything graphically with this VM. Nothing I press on the keyboard seems to do anything.Įverything VNC wise seems to be fine but I was expecting to have some sort of desktop from which I could browse my file system. I launched VNC Viewer on my local machine (Windows 7, 64 bit) and connected to the VM, but all I saw was a dark gray background with 3 checkboxes in the top left corner regarding clipboards.
Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup This printed out: New ':1 (root)' desktop is :1 Then I tried starting the vnc server with just this: vncserver. Xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
Yum install tigervnc-server xorg-x11-fonts-Type1Īfter using those commands to install stuff (a VNC server and Gnome, I think), I created this file at /root/.vnc/xstartup: #!/bin/sh I'm on CentOS 7 (64 bit) and I've run the following commands: yum groupinstall "X Window System" "Desktop" I have a few years of experience with using Linux on the command line, but this is my first time trying to set it up with a GUI.