Comments on: Installing VNC Remote Desktop on Centos VPS

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:21:37 +0000

Thanks for helping me get this setup on my VPS. Great tut.

By: Talk Web ID

Talk Web ID — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:06:05 +0000

edit the file “/etc/sysconfig/vncservers” and add this to the last two lines:

VNCSERVERS=”1:vncuser”
VNCSERVERARGS[1]=”-geometry 1024×768?

By: Jk22332

Jk22332 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:47:48 +0000

[root@anwo ~]# service vncserver start
Starting VNC server: no displays configured [FAILED]

can any one help out ?

By: Talk Web ID

Talk Web ID — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:17:11 +0000

did the vncserver service runs OK? check the log file.

why did you remove httpd? there is no need to remove it.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:40:02 +0000

After 4th step
i found only passwd file on commend
ls /home/vncuser/.vnc

removed httpd* from yum.conf

yet got one error
Failed:
httpd.x86_64 0:2.2.3-45.el5.centos.1

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:34:53 +0000

actually the VNCSERVERARGS variable on /etc/sysconfig/vncservers is not needed as the geometry is already stated on the xstartup script.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:52:58 +0000

Yes, he didn’t say you need to edit the file “/etc/sysconfig/vncservers” and add this to the last two lines:

VNCSERVERS=”1:vncuser”
VNCSERVERARGS[1]=”-geometry 640×480″

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:23:11 +0000

On some VPS you have to remove this – httpd* – from the /etc/yum.conf to make the gnome desktop install. Once the install is complete put back the “http*”.

If you don’t, you will get this error.
Missing Dependency: httpd >= 2.2.0 is needed by package gnome-user-share-0.10-6.el5.i386 (base)

By: astrix

astrix — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:26:41 +0000

i keep getting
Starting VNC server: no displays configured
i installed it step by step
can you help?

By: francisco

francisco — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:10:43 +0000

hi when i start and stop vc service theres no folder created what i do?