GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 652508
vinagre pops dialog boxes when run headless (makes it unusable for that)
Last modified: 2011-06-15 20:30:04 UTC
I have a remote box that is behind NAT. I would like to ssh in and launch a reverse VNC session. My keyboard machine has "Enable reverse connections" turned on. I ssh to the remote and launch: remote# vinagre 10.1.10.11::5501 --display=:0.0 And it works, sort of. But vinagre pops up with some dialogs about key bindings, thus halting the login process in a way I can't see or react ot. Thus better would be an enhancement for headless operation such as one of these two: remote# vinagre 10.1.10.11::5501 --display=:0.0 --headless remote# vinagre 10.1.10.11::5501 --display=:0.0 --quiet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next problem is I get a black screen the keyboard machine, identical to what I get if I simply "telnet 10.1.10.11 5501". The black screen persists until the session dies. Thus no video is transferred, and mouse movements don't work either. Thus for two reasons I was unable to get reverse VNC to work with vinagre. It would also help to have: remote# vinagre --version I have "Version: 2.30.2-0ubuntu1" supplied with Ubuntu 11.04. ------------------------------- Prior to this, I disabled NVidia drivers per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/353126
As a workaround, to disable the first-run dialog, you can run the following at a terminal: touch ~/.local/share/vinagre/first_run I am marking this bug as a duplicate of bug 609828 (improvements to the first-run dialog concepts), as it is closely related. I will probably not get a chance to look at this further until 3.4, so I suggest that you use the workaround until then. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 609828 ***