Thursday, June 05, 2014

How to enable Vino on Upgraded Ubuntu 14.04 server images

After installing ubuntu-desktop and vino you may notice that vino won't start.  If you're like me you'll be driven mad of what it won't start after enabling it through vino-preferences.  So it appears the "correct" way (which works) is by installing dconf-editor, and navigating to org.gnome.desktop.remote-access and checking "enabled" and setting all the other settings to your hearts content.  You may need to do this as root.

After this no more manual launching of vino-server!

Also if you're on a VM w/o 3D support I noticed a work-around is by avoiding the session manager by enabling auto-login.

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