[clug] vino process name

[Hal Ashburner]

$ ls /usr/lib | grep vino
$
:-(
I wonder why they have it in /usr/lib/vino/ anyway if it's an executable 
process that runs... I still wonder what it is that launches it.
Sun microsystems used to write most of Gnome's documentation, hard to 
see the situation improving in the light of recent events.

/usr/libexec/vino-server
control of invoking the process seems to be in 
~/.config/autostart/vino-server.desktop
all looks present and correct but doesn't fire automagically for some 
reason.


Thanks David.



David Schoen wrote:
> I've never used vino previously but thought I'd have a look.
>
> Immediately after selecting "Allow other users to view your desktop" a 
> process called vino-server (for me on Ubuntu 9.04 
> /usr/lib/vino/vino-server) is launched as my user and everything else 
> just worked.
>
> Not wanting to be rude... you have actually ticked the box to allow 
> access to your machine right?
>
> I only have the same two commands as you in my path.
>
> Assuming you have ticked the box, I'd try executing 
> /usr/lib/vino/vino-server directly.
>
> - Dave.
>
> 2009/5/18 Hal Ashburner <hal.ashburner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:hal.ashburner at gmail.com>>
>
>     Vino, I believe is the thing that allows you to share a gnome
>     desktop over the network. I can't seem to connect to the one on my
>     laptop at all, which is a pain. Trying to debug it, I don't even
>     know what the process is called.
>     I believe vino uses libvncserver to create it's own vnc server
>     rather than using vncserver or similar (could be wrong though, no
>     reason that doc couldn't be totally out of date.) But what is the
>     process actually called? It clearly isn't vino-passwd or
>     vino-preferences which are the only executable I seem to have that
>     are called anything like vino.  How is it started? Does it have to
>     be in "system->preferences->personal->sessions" somewhere?
>     My first point of call is "is the daemon actually running?" and I
>     can't answer it. vino-settings doesn't tell me if things are
>     working or not of course. I've tried connecting from the local
>     machine with the firewall totally disabled to no avail.
>     The documentation is only telling me about their grand designs to
>     do everything for everyone and what the ok button does which isn't
>     helping all that much.
>     Anyone know answers or know what you do to find out?
>     Cheers,
>     Hal
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