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I am using tigervnc 1.6.0 on Slackware 14.2. According to the documentation I should be able to place a file in $HOME/.vnc/config and define some settings I always want to apply, thus eliminating the need to pass them on the command line every time I start the VNC server.

My config file looks like this:

$ cat .vnc/config
SecurityTypes=None # do not ask for a password

However, when I call

$ vncserver :1

the setting gets ignored. I still have to explicitly define the setting on the command line:

$ vncserver :1 -securitytypes none

I also tried to place the configuration file in the other locations mentioned in the documentation (/etc/tigervnc/vncserver-config-defaults and /etc/tigervnc/vncserver-config-mandatory) without success.

Are there any additional steps I need to take to make vncserver respect the settings in the configuration file?

nautical
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I'm running a Ubuntu 17.10 container with tigervnc and it seems to rely on a file /etc/vnc.conf for defaults, you can override parameters by creating a file called ~/.vnc/vnc.conf using a perl syntax for example:

$geometry="1920x1080";

I hope this helps. I'm running VNC 1.7.0

# dpkg -l | grep vnc
ii  tigervnc-common                 1.7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu1               amd64        Virtual network computing; Common software needed by servers
ii  tigervnc-standalone-server      1.7.0+dfsg-7ubuntu1               amd64        Standalone virtual network computing server

 

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