Debian 9.5 upgrade broke vncserver service

[gjaltemba]

Happily running tigervnc-standalone-server in debian 9.4 gnome. After upgrade to 9.5, my vnc client gets a black screen and a square cursor when vncserver runs as systemd service. Works if I run vncserver from a terminal.

How do I run vncserver as a service in debian 9.5 gnome?

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[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=userid
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -localhost no %i'
ExecStop=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[bw123]

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How do I run vncserver as a service in debian 9.5 gnome?
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I found a lot of results searching for that question on the web. Appears to be several ways to do it, I found a lot of example service files.

[gjaltemba]

Obviously, but does any of the examples that you have found actually work with debian 9.5 gnome and tigervnc-standalone-server? All the examples that I have tried produces a black screen with square cursor. Running vncserver from the terminal works properly.