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stevenrossuk
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I have installed i3 (from debian backports, version 4.2), tightvncserver and xorg on a VPS. I have tried adding either i3 or startx to ~/.vnc/xstartup. I am greeted with a blank grey screen upon VNC login.

What steps have I missed?

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answered Apr 3 '13

sur5r
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I just reproduced your steps and got the following in VNCs log:

sh: /home/sur5r/.vnc/xstartup: Permission denied

chmod +x ~/.vnc/xstartup

should solve your problem.

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