I believe one of the problems with this bug's fix is that it can't be
nominated for Lucid because the option for Lucid is not available when
clicking Nominate.

Another problem is that there's not anyone whose job it is to manage the
project of fixing this bug.

Fixing this problem involves a number of people from different projects
to work together because:

* The remote desktop solution in Ubuntu uses the VNC backend which can't
read from hardware accelerated displays.  The VNC project guys would
have to fix this and it would probably involve a lot of work.

* There isn't currently a solution for remote display of hardware
rendered displays that can be easily integrated into Ubuntu.  The Ubuntu
project coordinators would have to find a useful product for
integration.

* NVIDIA can't fix the problem because it's not a problem with their
display driver or their hardware -- that stuff is all doing its job as
it should.

While I agree that a fix would be good, the "fix" isn't so much a "fix"
as creation of an entirely new feature.

In the meantime I propose one of these workarounds:

* Inform the user when they turn on the remote desktop feature, that it
won't work if desktop effects is turned on.

* Alternatively, the remote desktop software could be scripted such that
when someone connects to a machine that has desktop effects enabled, the
effects could be automatically switched off for that remote control
session, and then switched back on after disconnect.

For those who need remote control of their Ubuntu machines, you'll just
have to live without desktop effects until one of the above solutions
has been implemented, and I'm speculating that it won't happen for some
time because it seems that the Ubuntu project coordinators don't care
about the 30% of the user experience that consists of aesthetics enough
to work out a reasonable solution.

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Compiz / vnc screen refresh with nvidia-restricted driver/VirtualBox/ATI fglrx 
driver using X.org prior to release 7.5
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353126
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