vnc loading wrong window manager

[Bachmann]

Hey,

I have been using vnc to connect to my computer. I use xfce as my default window manager. I recently reinstalled fedora and even though xfce is my default window manager when I connect to my vncserver kde loads, I love xfce and kde is not the best for vnc so I would like to fix this.

Here is my xstartup in my .vnc folder

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
 unset SESSION_MANAGER
 exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

now I imagine that this is the offending code which loads kde

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
 unset SESSION_MANAGER
 exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &
[Bachmann@localhost ~]$ nano /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
[Bachmann@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 1999 - 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. This
# copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
# copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the
# GNU General Public License version 2.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

# Mandatorily source xinitrc-common, which is common code shared between the
# Xsession and xinitrc scripts which has been factored out to avoid duplication
. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common

# The user may have their own clients they want to run.  If they don't,
# fall back to system defaults.
if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
        exec $DBUS_LAUNCH $HOME/.Xclients || \
        exec $HOME/.Xclients
elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
        exec $DBUS_LAUNCH /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients || \
        exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
       # failsafe settings.  Although we should never get here
       # (we provide fallbacks in Xclients as well) it can't hurt.
       xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
       xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &

       if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/twm ]; then
               exec /usr/X11R6/bin/twm
       fi
fi

this code points to this

#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (C) 1999 - 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. This
# copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
# copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the
# GNU General Public License version 2.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

GSESSION="$(which gnome-session 2>/dev/null)"
STARTKDE="$(which startkde 2>/dev/null)"

# check to see if the user has a preferred desktop
PREFERRED=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/desktop
    if [ "$DESKTOP" = "GNOME" ]; then
        PREFERRED="$GSESSION"
    elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "KDE" ]; then
        PREFERRED="$STARTKDE"
    fi
fi

if [ -n "$PREFERRED" ]; then
    exec "$PREFERRED"
fi

# now if we can reach here, either no desktop file was present,
# or the desktop requested is not installed.

# by default, we run GNOME.
if [ -n "$GSESSION" ]; then
    exec "$GSESSION"
fi

# if GNOME isn't installed, try KDE.
if [ -n "$STARTKDE" ]; then
    exec "$STARTKDE"
fi

# Failsafe.

# these files are left sitting around by TheNextLevel.
rm -f $HOME/Xrootenv.0

# Argh! Nothing good is installed. Fall back to twm
{
    # gosh, neither fvwm95 nor fvwm2 is available;
    # fall back to failsafe settings
    if [ -x /usr/bin/xclock ] ; then
        /usr/bin/xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
    elif [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock ] ; then
        /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
    fi
    if [ -x /usr/bin/xterm ] ; then
        /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &
    fi
    if [ -x /usr/bin/mozilla -a -f /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ]; then
        /usr/bin/mozilla /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
    fi
    if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/twm ] ; then
        exec /usr/X11R6/bin/twm
    fi
}

I imagine that the solution to my problem is in editing one of these scripts/confs I just do not know about bash scripting/XFCE startup to know how.

I am open to solutions that dont touch any of this though

Thanks!

[wstahw]

The next script should start twm; I just commented out the bold lines.
If you want another window manager than twm replace the last line by your window manager.
You should also restart the vncserver.
Good luck! I did not test it, but it seems evident.

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
# unset SESSION_MANAGER
# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

[Bachmann]

lol, looks like I was just looking too deep into it

worked perfectly, thanks!