[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with VNC on OI 151.

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 03/13/12 04:01 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm having real trouble with configuring / running VNCserver on OI 151.
> I always get a white screen, and no xterm og nothing in it.

That happens when GNOME detects your system has hardware on console that
is capable of running compiz, and thus tries to run it for all sessions,
including those in Xvnc which can't support compiz.

http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9891

If you can get to a normal desktop session, you can change the preferences
in the GNOME appearance panel to disable Visual Effects, which disables
compiz usage.

Otherwise, you can try the suggestions from:
http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/4371/one-liner-getting-remote-desktop-sharing-compiz-to-play-nice-under-ubuntu-10-04-with-gnome/

to change the settings via remote login.

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