[PLUG] Remote Desktop under Ubuntu

Tony Rick tonyr42 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 19:39:38 UTC 2009


On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Tim Wescott <tim at wescottdesign.com> wrote:

> Clues, clues, clues for the clueless?
>
> I'm running Intrepid.
>
> I'm struggling with the Ubuntu help on remote desktops.  Seemingly I'm
> being told how to share my Ubuntu desktop for Windows users, and how to
> remote into a Windows desktop -- but I want to remote from one Ubuntu
> machine to another.
>
> As best as I can tell I should use Ubuntu's Vinagre "Remote Desktop
> Viewer", but when I try to connect all I get is a brief flash and an
> error window saying "Connection to host servo.local:5900" was closed.
>
> My system log says "WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-wm' of
> required component 'windowmanager'"; but this comes up during boot, not
> when I'm trying to connect.
>
> Does anyone have a story on how to get this to work?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Tim Wescott


I've been using 'tightvncserver' on the host and 'xtightvcnviewer'
as the client on my Hardy (8.04) systems.

- tony



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