I am setting up vnc so I can working on my primary desktop from other PCs on my LAN. I installed vnc4server on my primary and xtightvncviewer on my laptop. When I run vnc from the laptop, a window comes up that should be the desktop window and it contains one window in it. The inner window looks like an xterm window and it has a shell prompt in it. I can run shell commands in the window on my primary PC. My problem is that what should be a desktop window does not show the task bar nor can I right click in the window to bring up a menu as would be able to do if I was really on the desktop.
Do I have to run the server or viewer with particular options to get the full features of the desktop in the vnc viewer? I used vnc a while back, maybe 5 years ago, and I don't remember having to run any special options to have the desktop come up as expected.
And suggestions are appreciated.
Jim Anderson
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