Set up the VNC Server in Fedora Core Part:2

User Configuration
There is one more thing that needs to be done on the remote machine. User leopard’s vnc password needs to be set. So, as user leopard give the command:

# vncpasswd

We are prompted for a password. This is the password that we will use when we connect to leopard’s vnc server instance. This password is in /home/leopard/.vnc/passwd.

Start the VNC server
After the initial configuration is done we restart the vnc service. As root:# service vncserver restart
To make VNC server to start on boot:

# chkconfig vncserver on

More User Configuration

After the VNC service is started, some new files are created in /home/leopard/.vnc/ directory. These include leopard’s vnc server log file, pid file and an X startup script. As user leopard we edit the script in order to customize some settings. The default /home/leopard/.vnc/xstartup script contains some commands that are executed when the VNC server is started. These include:

xsetroot -solid grey

vncconfig -iconic &

xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &

twm &

xsetroot in this case sets the background color.

vncconfig is a supplementary program that can be used to control the vnc server. Apart from this, when run without arguments it acts as a helper application and its main purpose is to provide support for clipboard transfers between the client (vncviewer) and the vnc server. xterm starts an xterm terminal. twm starts the X server’s default window manager. We probably want to change that to a more user friendly window manager, eg fluxbox.