[plug] VNC / X help please

[Michael Holland]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Chris Griffin wrote:

> get is a dotted grey/white desktop with a quite large X cursor and

That is the familiar base X desktop, with no window manager, etc.
ie Gnome is not running.

> The xstartup file looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/gnome-session

'exec' replaces the current process, so everything below it
is ignored. There is no return from an exec, unless it fails.

Did you try reading the log file?