Bug 1880773

Summary:	KDE desktop does not run anymore in tiger-vncserver (black screen)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	George Petasis <petasisg>
Component:	tigervnc	Assignee:	Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	32	CC:	cegolf, fedora, jgrulich, vonsch
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Description George Petasis 2020-09-19 20:50:44 UTC

Description of problem:
After the update to 1.11.0-1.fc32 and following the instructions on https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tigervnc/blob/master/f/HOWTO.md, my desktop is still not running. I have specified "session=plasma" in my vnc config, but I only get a black screen (i.e. no window manager is running).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 32, tiger-vncserver 1.11.0-1.fc32

How reproducible:
Start a KDE session under vnc server


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put "session=plasma" in your .vnc/config
2. Start tiger-vncserver
3.

Actual results:
Black screen

Expected results:
A KDE desktop

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jan Grulich 2020-09-21 06:41:49 UTC

Do you start the server for a user who is already logged in graphically? Do you see anything in the logs in $HOME/.vnc? Or when you run "systemctl status service_name"?

Comment 2 Jan Grulich 2020-09-21 07:22:35 UTC

I tested it, created a new user, ran "vncpasswd" to set a password and configured /etc/tigervnc/vncserver-config-defaults with "session=plasma". After starting a VNC server I could connect and saw Plasma desktop.

Comment 3 George Petasis 2020-09-21 19:59:29 UTC

After re-trying today, I also get a KDE desktop.
Perhaps due to the updates installed today?

But I cannot reproduce it anymore.
I am going to close this bug.