VNC xstartup for XFCE

$ cat .vnc/xstartup

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

 unset SESSION_MANAGER

 export PATH=$PATH:/localdisk/programs/xfce/bin:/localdisk/programs/xfce/sbin

 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/localdisk/programs/xfce/lib

#xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &

vncconfig -iconic&

startxfce4 &

Tunnel VNC over ssh

This will be faster than using VNC over X over ssh (i.e., ssh -X). Let us say we want to tunnel vnc from remote to local and the vncserver on remote is started on port 2 (5092).

local$ ssh -C -L 5902:127.0.0.1:5902  uid@remote

Then on remote start vncserver if it is not started

remote$ vncserver :2

Now on start vncviewer on local to connect to remote vnc server:

local$ vncviewer locathost:2