I did the Digital Ocean tutorial ‘How to Install and Configure VNC on Ubuntu 16.04’. On my Windows box I ran Putty and Tightvnc Viewer. The viewer shows only a grey screen with an ‘X’ that is synced to the mouse pointer.
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Hello there,
Can you share the content of your ~/.vnc/xstartup file? What you can do is to try using the following code snippet and give it another try:
- #!/bin/sh
- unset SESSION_MANAGER
- unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
- dbus-launch xfce4-session
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
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