When VNC through systemd/xinetd fails
So there has been a lot of updates to KDM and GDM as of late in the Fedora line. This has broken my ability to use xinetd for automatic VNC starting. The problem is that the display manager never gives me a prompt. So I have had to fall back to manual processes. From your local box: ssh <normal options> -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5901 (on the remote box) vncpasswd screen Xvnc -geometry 1280x720 -desktop remotedesktop -NeverShared -SecurityTypes VncAuth -PasswordFile ~/.vnc/passwd :1 ^ac lxsession -d :1 ## or your favorite wm vncviewer -PreferredEncoding Tight localhost:5901