Restarting vino remotely?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:36 -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> Good morning... for some reason, vino is not currently running on my home
> PC (I suspect a portmanager update killed it and it did not restart). Xorg
> and Gnome are still running however (I have an X desktop going on the local
> machine at home). I can still ssh in just fine, but I've never solved the
> mystery on how to restart vino-session remotely without it kicking errors.
> It always seems to want to be launched from a terminal session on the local
> PC console. Is there a trick to this?
> 
> To be clear: I'm not trying to forward X sessions over ssh. I forward VNC
> over ssh using vino as the VNC server. This works better for my needs.
> 
> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
> Gnome 2.12.2
> Vino 2.12.0
> Xorg 6.8.2
> 
> Any suggestions?

It won't work unless you've done an xhost + on your console, but you can
try setting your DISPLAY to :0.0, then running vino.

Joe

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