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I have a debian server. It is running the latest stable version of Debian.

The following commands have been entered:

apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies

I have also added startxfce4 to the VNC startup file.

However, I get this black and white dotted screen when I start vnc:

xfce4

Is there a way to make the xfce4 desktop run properly?

(it's a server, so i dont have the monitor, physical access etc)

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unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
startxfce4 &

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &

#it works for me
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  • Maybe explain what the OP did/is doing wrong so that he understands why this works. – Ortund Apr 21 '16 at 16:11
  • This works for me too, but I don't know why. Could you please explain each line? – Mark Richman Jun 27 '17 at 00:39
  • Seems to be related to this bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7502 I'm betting there's a reference to the window manager already running in the log files for the VNC server startup with other scripts. – Bryan Anderson Feb 09 '21 at 12:16
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Use xfce4-session instead of startxfce4, it's in the package xfce4-session.

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vi /root/.vnc/xstartup


#!/bin/sh
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
startxfce4 &

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
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