Why VNC not showing actual Remote Desktop

Ok i installed vnc server on RHEL 5.9 and also installed Tightvnc viewer on windows 7 and from RHEL i started vncserver and assigned the password using vncpasswd.

Then from tightvnc viewer i gave the IP and listening port xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1. It successfully connected with VNC server installed and running on RHEL. And then I gave the password and then BOOOM it gave me this hideous interface

When Actual Desktop is like this

Ok people tell me what Im missing

Answers:

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Method 1

What you see probably is the X11 session defined in ~/.vnc/xstartup, a minimal X11 session, maybe something like (this is how it looks like on Debian)

#!/bin/sh
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
x-window-manager &

on another display, probably :1.

There’re two things you can do:

• To access a different desktop that looks the same, you have to start it in this xstartup file, e.g.
  with exec gnome-session or something similar, have a look for
  documentation on xinitrc or xsession[rc])
• To access the same desktop session, you need a different VNC server. x11vnc can do desktop sharing; in your GNOME environment, Vino is probably the preferable choice (as Ignacio pointed out)

Method 2

vncserver doesn’t connect to the actual desktop; it creates a virtual desktop that is configured separately. If you want to access the actual desktop then you need to use either the VNC X extension or Vino.

Method 3

Please uncomment following two lines in xstartup file under ~/.vnc/xstartup:

Before:

#unset SESSION_MANAGER
#exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

After:

unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
twm &

Method 4

I faced the same issue on solaris 11 and after a little search I found out the gnome desktop is not even installed. So I installed it using:

pkg install --accept solaris-desktop

Then killed the running vnc-server:

vncserver -kill :1

and after running vnc again using this command

vncserver -kill :1

I was able to see the real desktop using vnc-viewer.

Method 5

#!/bin/sh
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
gnome-session &

Add gnome-session & at the end of the xstartup file

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