I usually suggest an alternate VNC server, x11vncserver or FreeNX.

FreeNX how to and download info

x11 VNC and docs

This assumes that VNC is setup and run-able:

Copy the code block below into /etc/init.d/vncserver. The easiest way to do it is to copy it to your clipboard, run sudo -i && cat > /etc/init.d/vncserver && exit in a terminal, paste it in, and type Ctrl-D`. Be sure to change the USER variable to whatever user you want the VNC server to run under.

#!/bin/sh -e

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:          vncserver

# Required-Start:    networking

# Default-Start:     3 4 5

# Default-Stop:      0 6

### END INIT INFO



PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin/"



# The Username:Group that will run VNC

export USER="mythtv"

#${RUNAS}



# The display that VNC will use

DISPLAY="1"



# Color depth (between 8 and 32)

DEPTH="16"



# The Desktop geometry to use.

#GEOMETRY="<WIDTH>x<HEIGHT>"

#GEOMETRY="800x600"

GEOMETRY="1024x768"

#GEOMETRY="1280x1024"



# The name that the VNC Desktop will have.

NAME="my-vnc-server"



OPTIONS="-name ${NAME} -depth ${DEPTH} -geometry ${GEOMETRY} :${DISPLAY}"



. /lib/lsb/init-functions



case "$1" in

start)

log_action_begin_msg "Starting vncserver for user '${USER}' on localhost:${DISPLAY}"

su ${USER} -c "/usr/bin/vncserver ${OPTIONS}"

;;



stop)

log_action_begin_msg "Stoping vncserver for user '${USER}' on localhost:${DISPLAY}"

su ${USER} -c "/usr/bin/vncserver -kill :${DISPLAY}"

;;



restart)

$0 stop

$0 start

;;

esac



exit 0

Make the script executable with sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/vncserver.

Then, run sudo update-rc.d vncserver defaults. This adds the appropriate symlinks to the vncserver script so that it is sent the start and stop commands at the appropriate time.

Note: you may need to use sudo update-rc.d vncserver 99 instead if the job is running too early in the boot process.

To start the server without rebooting, run sudo /etc/init.d/vncserver start

Finally, connect to your server with a VNC client on port 590X, where X is the value of "DISPLAY" in the vncserver script

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