Here's a picture of what happens. UltraVNC Viewer on Windows host on left, connected to guest VM of Ubuntu 16.04.1 Actual Ubuntu guest VM on left running in VirtualBox
At this point, I'm showing you that the VNC Viewer is static, left, while the actual OS itself has "moved on" to the Guest Session desktop, right. Once Guest Session logs out and I re-enter 'administrator' user account's password in Ubuntu, the VNC window becomes active again and can be manipulated. (Hopefully I'm explaining this in enough detail.) The reason I'm demonstrating this in a VM is because I no longer dual boot Ubuntu at home (but yearn to, immensely - I'm done with Microsoft). The reason this causes me issues specifically is I'm "dad" in a household of 4. My kids are on and off the computer all day. If one of my daughters goes to her desktop, leaves it, and I connect via VNC tunneled over SSH (from work) like I typically do, I have a dead/unusable session at work because my physical home machine is still on my daughter's desktop while my VNC session is pulling up my 'static' desktop which is for all intents and purposes, "dead" and inactive. ** Attachment added: "lightdm_bug.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-locker/+bug/1287171/+attachment/4740316/+files/lightdm_bug.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287171 Title: light-locker breaks x11vnc as service To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-locker/+bug/1287171/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
