disabling localhost would also disable ssh tunnels, which would make vinagre completely useless for those that admin remote systems. This could be overriden with the "use host" option, as long as it remains fixed (it has been broken in the last 2 releases).
if it's possible to detect when the remote connect is to itself, this would fix the "problem" properly, but that would be have to be part of the vnc protocol itself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vinagre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398923 Title: Disable "Connect to localhost" in Vinagre Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Invalid Status in Vinagre: VNC client for GNOME: New Status in “vinagre” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: vinagre I have a suggestion for Vinagre. What do you think about disabling "localhost" as target for vpn? When you try to connect to "localhost", this is a recursive progress (see screenshot). ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Jul 13 19:42:14 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vinagre Package: vinagre 2.26.2-1ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-2.17-generic SourcePackage: vinagre Uname: Linux 2.6.31-2-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/398923/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
