“Oh no, something has gone wrong” – Fedora 23 and tigervnc

I am having a strange problem using vncserver on Fedora 23. I did a new fresh install of Fedora 23 on my laptop, installed tigervnc-server and tigervnc, started it and got the “Oh, no!….” message when vncviewer displayed the desktop. I thought it was a bad install, but the problem happens with Fedora 23 Live … Read more

Grey screen appears with VNCviewer

I’m having some trouble with VNCviewer as I alwayse get a grey screen when connecting, perhaps one of this files are configured incorrectly: for my /etc/vnc/xstartup file I tried adding this at first and even using this script. no success with neither of them. About the logs, im typing tightvncserver and getting this: When trying … Read more

Keyboard layout seems wrong only in certain windows

It seems like any textboxes in lxqt windows is using the wrong characters when typing them. For example the desktop preferences window, trying to type in a new background image file name the keyboard characters are mapped incorrectly but in VIM, shells, etc it’s fine. I checked the locale and keyboard layout and it looks … Read more

Running vim sometimes causes vnc server to crash

I use tightvnc on Ubuntu 14.04.1. Sometimes, when I run vim, the vnc server dies. I see the following messages in my VNC log: Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on display ‘:1’. xterm: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) or KillClient on X server “:1” (gnome-panel:12289): Gdk-WARNING **: … Read more

How to insert VNC Server license key (automatically) after a PC reimage with MDT

I have a base build PC which has the VNC Server license key inserted and working correctly. I’ve then taken an image of it via WINPE disk and the DISM command line (.WIM file) Wim file is then imported into MDT and then re-deployed out to multiple devices, hassle free. Unfortunately the Serial Key for … Read more