How to enable vino?

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Thu Oct 28 16:09:51 UTC 2004


Hi,

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 04:44, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 14:50 -0400, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:56 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > [ snip unrelated discussion ]
> > 
> > I'm still not able to connect to any vino session. Though I have enabled
> > it via the Preferences (and have since logged out and back in), I still
> > don't see any indication that a vncserver is available. I don't see
> > vino-server in a ps listing... should I? What could be keeping me from
> > getting this up and running?
> > 
> 
> After further trials, running /usr/libexec/vino-server manually does
> start up vino and let me connect a vncviewer to it. However, I'm
> assuming the user is not supposed to have to run this manually
> (especially considering the existence
> of /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_RemoteDesktop.server). Does anyone know
> what is supposed to activate the server? How are others running vino?

	gnome-session is what activates vino-server depending on whether you've
enabled it from the preferences dialog.

	Are you running GNOME?

Cheers,
Mark.




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