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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
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