By the way, I guess vino-preferences gets confused because the DISPLAY command includes localhost but does not point to the local X server, just to the ssh forwarding tunnel.
It can be seen from this example (and also shows why the trick with the DISPLAY variable in my previous post works): u...@client: ~ $ ssh SERVER u...@server's password: u...@server: ~ $ DISPLAY=:0 echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 -- vino-preferences over ssh -X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499884 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
