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[one-liner]: Gnome’s VNC Server, Vino, prompts for the Gnome Keyring Password on Ubuntu 10.04

Background

Another day with Ubuntu and another nebulous error 8-). I recently setup my 2nd permanent Ubuntu system, which would be used exclusively by my wife. I used 10.04 and the install went fine. During the install one of the dialogs asked if I wanted to login automatically.

Ubuntu install dialog: who are you

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[one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME

NOTE: This is an update to my original post on this problem when I 1st encountered it in Ubuntu 9.04.

Background

This one threw me for a bit but I finally realized that when I had Compiz enabled on an Ubuntu 10.04 system, I couldn’t use VNC to connect via Remote Desktop Sharing in GNOME (aka. Vino, […] Continue reading

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[one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 9.04 with GNOME

Background

This one threw me for a bit but I finally realized that when I had Compiz enabled on an Ubuntu 9.04 system, I couldn’t use VNC to connect via Remote Desktop Sharing in GNOME (aka. Vino, aka. VNC Server). Apparently this has been an issue going back since 2007 8-(, when Compiz is enabled. Since […] Continue reading

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