Using Gnome with vncserver

Setting up vncserver on linux to use a different window manager than twm (the minimalistic default) is actually pretty straightforward if you know where to look and what to change.


If you just want to use your default desktop you can uncomment the lines at the start of ~/.vnc/xstartup

If you want to use a specific window manager the following steps should work:

1. Open ~/.vnc/xstartup
2. For KDE, replace "twm &" with "startkde &"
3. For Gnome, replace "twm &" with "gnome-session &"
4. restart vncserver if it's already running