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From: "Keith Alan Landry" <wirwzd@wirewizards.com>
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Subject: Re: Questions in regards to VNC, remote management tool.
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:15:15 -0500
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> Before mucking around with vnc, sit at your box and get X running 
> properly. When it is running, try vnc. You will need to 
> edit the .vnc/xstartup file to bring up the window manager of 
> your choice. Here is mine:
> 
> ---------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> export XAUTHORITY=/home/username/.Xauthority
> icewm
> ---------------------
> 
> set up to run icewm. You will have to edit accordingly to make it 
> run KDE. I had to export .Xauthority at some point for some reason. 
> Can't remember why now. 
> 

I use the following in my $HOME/.vnc/xstartup to launch KDE in VNC.

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#!/bin/sh

xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
startkde

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Keith Alan Landry
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