Sax Maniac's Journal: TightVNC and Xorg 7.x

This is a public service announcement, because I went crazy trying to figure this out myself. To run an older build of TightVNC on Fedora Core 5 and up (which includes Xorg 7.0+), you need to run with some extra options:

vncserver -fp unix/:7100 -co /usr/share/X11/rgb

Otherwise, you'll find that anything that refers to a color by a symbolic name shows black or white instead.

I'm lazy and don't want to build the TightVNC from source, so I use an old package targeted to Fedora Core 3.

Xorg moved the location of some files in 7.0 (from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/share) and TightVNC needs to know where to look for it, since it assumes you have a parallel X server installation.

I hope Google finds this and serves you well.