On Wed, 31 May 2006, Jim Karcz wrote:

> I have run vncserver on a RHEL3 box.  I have seen that X pattern when my 
> xstartup file was screwed up.
>
> Here is what I use to start gnome:
> #!/bin/sh
> xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults
> vncconfig -iconic &
> xsetroot -solid black
> exec /usr/bin/gnome-session &
> #exec /usr/bin/startkde &


One important difference is that I am using autocutsel in my 
~/.vnc/xstartup:

exec autocutsel &

But that won't work unless autocutsel is installed!  If you don't have it 
installed already, check here:

http://www.lepton.fr/tools/autocutsel/

It compiles really easily with gcc.

Mike