Yesterday I installed a vnc server on my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server. I did this because I want to run some GUI applications like a BitTorrent client on it. The last time I installed a vnc server on a machine without a window manager was back when I was using Redhat. So I did a little search and found out that the best way is to install gnome-core and tightvncserver by issuing
apt-get install gnome-core tightvncserver
After the first start of tightvncserver I was able to connect to port 5901. Tightvnc only starts a simple window manager and an xterm. To get tightvnc start a gnome session I had to edit the file xstartup in the .vnc folder of my home directory. I removed the line
x-window-manager &
at the end of the file and added
gnome-session &
After stopping the vnc server with the following command line
tightvncserver -kill :1
and starting it again I was entering my gnome session when connecting with my vnc viewer (UltraVNC).
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