Topic: Setting up a remote desktop for Ubuntu

[Steve]

What do you mean? I dont see any reason why you couldnt use it.....like i said though this is all new to me, maybe im misunderstanding.

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[Mike]

ok then, dumb question:  What is the command to start it up?  Went with gnome

[Steve]

startx

then

gnome-session

to start it automatically i *think* its

echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc

then

startx

Thats from memory but it was mandrake i was using i think. Try this also

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=97404

[Mike]

Got it to come up but it took too long to load and covered both screens.  meh

[Steve]

high load time? My laptop takes about 10-15 second to load from dead to the login screen but once i login everything loads almost instantly....

[Mike]

Nah, but you gonna remember that it is shoving a lot of info over the ethernet.

[Steve]

Yea thats true. Dumah might have some ideas, i have no remote exp with nix yet.

[Mike]

From what I've read it seems like VNC is a better route to go if I want to do that.  I think you can pipe it through an SSH connection at the same time.  Only problem is that I'll have to open that port up on my router and it is a pain (shitty router interface)

[Steve]

its been a while since i did any local port configuring, but do you need to open the port for local connections? I think you can VNC to the machine without opening the port on the router. I think thats only for inbound traffic from outside the LAN.

Unless your remoting to a machine outside the network, but i got the impression this is all at your house.

[Mike]

House, work, school, etc :P

The pidgin thing was mainly for work

[Steve]

ahhh my bad. What kind of router is it? Even my embarq one isnt THAT bad and thats borderline horrendous interface.

[Dumah]

Hmm, is it possible to use the desktop manager in this configuration?

If you want to do that you might as well Remote Desktop into the machine instead of using SSH tunneling

[Mike]

Hmmm this is weird. Everytime I run pidgin I get

libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error.
  (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied) A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" member "state" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager")

and

(pidgin:26829): GStreamer-CRITICAL **:
Trying to dispose element fakesink, but it is not in the NULL state.
You need to explicitly set elements to the NULL state before
dropping the final reference, to allow them to clean up.

Whats more I start pidgin as a background process and today tried dumping stderr and stdout to /dev/null and it still won't shut the fuck up.

BTW Pidgin works so I couldn't care less about the errors.