That did it! I did that and got the following:

When I issue the -geometry command I get the following back:

When I run the grep command I get the following:

Yes, I did see the .vnc folder. I'm not sure how to copy the text from the command line output of my vm of my ubuntu server install into Windows where I'm responding so I'll type the output: drwxr-xr-x 2 mpompey mpompey 4096 2012-02-13 14:00 . drwxr-sr-s 8 mpompey mpompey 4096 2012-02-13 14:00 .. -r...

I confirmed that I was in the home folder. I used the terminal commands you provided and got the same result.

I'll try it now. Thanks for the reply.

I'm following the instructions on installing VNC on my ubuntu linux server. I've been able to install vnc4server and create a desktop session. I'm at the part of the instructions where I need to edit (vim .vnc/xstartup). However, when vim opens the file the file appears empty. I see a bunch of blue ...