Originally Posted by
markoid8
I have been working on building a VNC server setup where a user can connect, and is shown the GDM greeter and they can log in and out just like a local user. I have gotten the VNC part to work fine, but when I connect, I get the blank grey X screen.
My reasoning for this is because the guides I have looked at ask me to edit the file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. This file does not exist in my filesystem. I have even done searches for the file, and it does not appear in any other directory. I have tried to create the file but the changes are not applied.
Has the file been removed, replaced, or changed names?
I really need to be able to make the changes that this file allows to be made.
I have been using Ubuntu for 3 years and I rarely need to pose questions to the forums, but this one has me completely stumped.
My system runs Ubuntu server 9.10, a fairly fresh install. [less than 2 weeks old]
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hello everyone! markoid8, were you successful on setting up vnc to show gdm ? I've been searching to accomplish the same on my ubuntu server 10.04 box...
So far, I've been able to open the gnome session in the vnc session by putting gnome-session & ONLY in ~/.vnc/xstartup :
Code:
#!/bin/sh
gnome-session &
It all works well, I get my gnome session, but it skips login... I'd rather login normally into the session with gdm...
TIA
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