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HOWTO: Remote Desktop with VNC in Ubuntu Edgy/Feisty

Updated, 4 May 2007: Warren helpfully pointed out in the comments a possible fix for the problem with the latest vnc4server. It worked for me in Edgy, and I hope it works with these instructions for Feisty Fawn also.

See below for info about the -extension XFIXES option, and for another necessary setting in 7.04/Feisty if you want to use multiple logins for a single user. Also see the related entry for this bug at Launchpad.net.

Last year I set up VNC Server in Fedora Core 5 (see below), and the instructions I followed had the added bonus of giving me resumable sessions, so that the remote session continues between client sessions. There is a long thread …