Xvnc on RHEL 10.1 with Wayland

[John]

Thank you for the awesome work with TigerVNC.

I was able to get w0vncserver working on RHEL 10.1 with Wayland. Very cool to see that working. 

However, what I need is a new virtual desktop, not to share the console desktop (as is done with w0vncserver).

Is it possible to run Xvnc on RHEL10.1 with wayland? If so, what needs to go in the xstartup?

I tried the options below, but none of them work: I just see a blank screen when I connect.

Thank you!

John

johnr@cometlake-rhel10(~) 137$ cat .config/tigervnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
#exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
#exec /usr/libexec/gnome-session
exec /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session
#exec /usr/libexec/gdm-headless-login-session
johnr@cometlake-rhel10(~) 138$

[Pierre Ossman]

On 08/02/2026 21:37, John wrote:
>
> Is it possible to run Xvnc on RHEL10.1 with wayland? If so, what needs to
> go in the xstartup?
>

No, Xvnc only supports X11 desktops. But RHEL 10 does still ship with
that, it's just that they've hidden some bits.

First off, xstartup is no longer used with TigerVNC. It will use the
same xsession files that gdm uses for a local login.

Unfortunately, that xsession file is precisely what RHEL 10 has removed.
So you'll need to steal this file from RHEL 9 or Fedora:

/usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop

With that in place, you should be able to get a GNOME desktop with TigerVNC.

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