that you were also logged into the local GUI when you started the remote session. Jmadams1, would you mind sharing your xstartup for Mate, so I can compare? I'm assuming the default xstartup is fine (since it was on the other machine), and that I have something else going on. I don't get black (I am able to see the desktop), but the log file has tons of errors (attached). (I'm not sure why the line breaks aren't showing ^) #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS exec startxfce4

I did a bunch of searching and found a different xstartup suggested here instead of the default created the first time vncserver is run: The text machine is Xubuntu 18.04, and the projection machine is Ubuntu server 18.04 with the Xubuntu desktop added on top (sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop) because I wanted to use the server's install wizard to configure RAID.

I repeated the same exact TigerVNC install process on my production machine, and when I connect I just get a black screen. On my testing machine, I was able to connect correctly.

I tried the suggestion in #668 and downloaded unpacked and moved to / I have a production machine (recently built and many hours of configuration have been put into it), so I tried things on a different machine I had sitting around first.

Tightvnc ubuntu 20.04