VNC / Ubuntu 18.04 / xfce4: can't launch executables with a GUI
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I'm using VNC remote desktop to visually access a remote Ubuntu 18.04 machine with a xfce4 GUI. VNC works fine. SSH shell works fine. The 2 programs with a graphic UI I'd like to launch are nedit (a visual editor, compiled) and Unity (a game dev IDE). They both have the +x permissions, which I can see in the shell.
In VNC, when I click "Properties", I don't see a "Run this as a program" option on either of them, just write/read.
When I double click on an either "executable" in VNC's file manager, I get some odd message "Unable to set the xfce4 Display Settings" as if the "executables" were arguments for "Start with a Display".
When installing, I saw the Unity GUI in VNC briefly, so I know running Unity is technically possible.
The content of ~/.vnc/xstartup:
#!/bin/bash
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
startxfce4 &
In VNC, when I click "Properties", I don't see a "Run this as a program" option on either of them, just write/read.
When I double click on an either "executable" in VNC's file manager, I get some odd message "Unable to set the xfce4 Display Settings" as if the "executables" were arguments for "Start with a Display".
When installing, I saw the Unity GUI in VNC briefly, so I know running Unity is technically possible.
The content of ~/.vnc/xstartup:
#!/bin/bash
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
startxfce4 &
Asked by MrSparkly
(111 rep)
Sep 23, 2021, 04:16 PM
Last activity: Sep 23, 2021, 05:18 PM
Last activity: Sep 23, 2021, 05:18 PM