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On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 10:12 +0100, Martin Gautier wrote: > > > On 21/07/11 19:14, Kevin Lucas wrote: > > Has any one had any experience of VNC and Gnome compiz? > > > > I have Fedora Gnome and 2 Mint Gnomes with VNC and ssh Set up but I > > think when you have Compiz turned on, VNC gets you an initial Image > > of the screen but no mouse pointer update. I found this after > > clicking and seeing no response only to find it performed all the > > actions on the remote machine. > > > > Turning off compiz all is ok. > > > > I get confused with Remote Desktop and Vnc > > > > Is it possible to connect to a machine as user` B`...... when say > > user `A ` is logged on locally and get an X connection via VNC but > > turn off compiz for just user B then turn it on again after > > finishing? If you turn off compiz during a session it's a > > disaster! All the windows pile up and become non responsive. > > > > > > I know the settings for the Xserver and vnc in the ~/.vnc folder > > and for /etc/sysconfig/vncservers but can you put in a script > > somewhere something like --nocompiz? > Kevin > > In Ubuntu VNC & Compiz haven't worked together since Compiz was > introduced. There are a couple of (very old) open bugs on this which I > monitor but there never seems to be a proper fix. > > The only reliable solution seems to be to switch off XDamage. I think > you can do that in gconf-editor. The problem with this fix is that it > significantly increases the bandwidth requirements so is only really > workable on a LAN. > > I gave up on VNC some time ago because of this issue. I use NX > instead. > > Martin Ive tried to use the command /usr/bin/xcfe4-session with various variants n the xstartup file but it looks like the session is set on local login and cant be changed. It looks like I will just use SSH as removing Compiz is a backward step ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) sip:kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxx www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq