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ubuntu 16.04, vncserver results in grey screen

Posted November 25, 2017 2.1k views
MiscellaneousUbuntu 16.04

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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alexdo February 26, 2021

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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