i am stuck at a certain part of the howto for ease i have given the full text in a pastebin you can see at the end of the text where i am stuck i am asked To set up default DE for the VNC server, you'll need to modify/re-create the file 'xstartup' on the directory '~/.vnc'. This script will be automatically executed when the VNC server is running. mv ~/.vnc/xstartup ~/.vnc/xstartup.bak nano ~/.vnc/xstartup there is no xstartup in vcn