Got it! You were dead right; the vncserver had not updated it's
settings! I restarted it and voila, all is well.

Now, yes, I'll start dealing with properly setting up firewalls/ssh
etc to secure it better, but I needed it up ASAP on the local network
first. Thank you again!

                      -jordan

On 5/31/06, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote:
> 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
>