Re: VNC viewer is connected but blank screen

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:35:46 -0700 (PDT), Salih <Salih.ML@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I was able to run a vncserver and connect to it without a problem.
After switching to xfce from kde, viewer connects but all I get is a
blank screen with mouse working.

I am running the server on a Kubuntu machine. I tried connecting to it
via TightVNC from a Windows machine as well as via vncviewer to
localhost from the Linux server itself.

When I run the server I get the following log:

4/03/08 13:32:12 Xvnc version 3.3.7 - built May 24 2007 12:47:11
24/03/08 13:32:12 Copyright (C) 2002-2003 RealVNC Ltd.
24/03/08 13:32:12 Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
24/03/08 13:32:12 All Rights Reserved.
24/03/08 13:32:12 See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC
24/03/08 13:32:12 Desktop name 'X' (cellular:1)
24/03/08 13:32:12 Protocol version supported 3.3
24/03/08 13:32:12 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901

When I connect from the client using vncviewer, this additional
message is received:

24/03/08 13:32:53 Got connection from client 0.0.0.0
24/03/08 13:32:53 Protocol version 3.3
24/03/08 13:32:55 Pixel format for client 0.0.0.0:
24/03/08 13:32:55 8 bpp, depth 6
24/03/08 13:32:55 true colour: max r 3 g 3 b 3, shift r 4 g 2 b 0
24/03/08 13:32:55 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unknown
encoding type -239
24/03/08 13:32:55 rfbProcessClientNormalMessage: ignoring unknown
encoding type -223
24/03/08 13:32:55 Using ZRLE encoding for client 0.0.0.0

I don't know how to debug it and logs do not tell much. Does anybody
have any idea what would be the cause?

Thanks...

VNC is only going to show what's on the screen of the remote machine.
What is that remote screen displaying?
--
buck

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