On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Tim Wescott <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
