How to properly configure xstartup file for TightVNC with Ubuntu VPS GNOME environment

Question

I\'d like to access my Ubuntu 16.10 VPS (Contabo) with using a GNOME environment with VNC, however I am still facing some issues that I couldn\'t solve so far. To install and co

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I followed all these instructions... except debug and the VNC started working. I use my Ubuntu system as a headless system and 99% of the time use VNC.

I performed a BIOS update and reboot today and experienced the same problem again. I know I already installed everything but the one thing that got this to work was running these commands again:

sudo locale-gen
sudo localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
vncserver -kill :1
vncserver

Opened VNC Viewer and connected without a problem.