Ok i installed vnc server on RHEL 5.9 and also installed Tightvnc viewer on windows 7 and from RHEL i started vncserver and assigned the password using vncpasswd.
Then from tightvnc viewer i gave the IP and listening port xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1. It successfully connected with VNC server installed and running on RHEL. And then I gave the password and then BOOOM it gave me this hideous interface
When Actual Desktop is like this
Ok people tell me what Im missing
Best Answer
What you see probably is the X11 session defined in
~/.vnc/xstartup
, a minimal X11 session, maybe something like (this is how it looks like on Debian)on another display, probably
:1
.There're two things you can do:
xstartup
file, e.g. withexec gnome-session
or something similar, have a look for documentation onxinitrc
orxsession[rc]
)x11vnc
can do desktop sharing; in your GNOME environment, Vino is probably the preferable choice (as Ignacio pointed out)