Hi List, First thing off, the (not so) obvious answers to questions I've already asked myself: 1. I'm running openSUSE on an Intel PC (uname -r = 2.6.13-15.7-default) 2. connecting from a Win XP laptop on the same network segment as the target PC 3. /usr/X11R6/bin/vncserver has "startkde" instead of "twm" at line 63 [ "startkde &\n"); ] 4. Remote Administration is allowed, Port is Open In Firewall (in YAST2) 4a. double-checked service "vnc1" is ON by default in xinetd (in YAST2) 4b. double-checked Remote Administration is actually allowed in Firewall (in YAST2) 5. file /etc/xinetd.d/vnc seems OK All that I can get upon connecting from my laptop to the LinBox is the usual grey screen showing "nobody's X11 desktop (Linux :1)". I've also compared these settings to another PC of mine which runs VNC flawlessly. Needless to say, the settings are exactly the same. (The only difference is that on this second PC I've enabled Remote Administration during installation) My conclusions are: connection works, VNC service is running, firewall is OK, window manager is NOT working. I've googled around but it looks like there's some setting specific to openSUSE that I cannot get hold of. (maybe Google is broken, hehe) Any advice? THX, -mw