Ubuntu
vnc4 package

vncstartup launches twm which might not be around

Bug #65279 reported by Tormod Volden
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Bug Description

The default vncstartup script uses twm, which is not installed in a standard Ubuntu desktop. It should rather use metacity, or vnc4 should have a dependency on twm.

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Xore (xore) wrote :

I experience this also.

I cannot find twm in apt. Am i missing something?

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

Confirmed by previous comment.

Changed in vnc4:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Etienne Goyer (etienne-goyer-outlands) wrote :

I believe the real solution would be to have the executable vnc4server write the ~/.vnc/xstartup ending with "x-session-manager &" instead. Looking into the package source, it appear the package was patched at some point to do just that, but somehow it got lost in new package release.

Xore: twm is in the (aptly named) package twm.

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