On 10/01/13 19:48, Chris Green wrote:
I was considering using VNC to access another box on my LAN but as the remote system (which would run a VNC server) doesn't currently have X running on it (though there's a Lubuntu desktop available) it makes VNC rather awkward.
I've seen x2go recommended for this sort of situation as it seems as if it's more oriented towards the sort of thing I want to do - fire up an X session and use it remotely.
While it would be nice if one could use 'old fashioned' X as it was originally designed it tends not to work so well with very many programs now using dBus to communicate.
E.g. if I try and run nm-connection-editor on the remote system via an "ssh -x remote-system" connection it pops up a window on my system but there's an error:-
** (nm-connection-editor:3088): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-9FFbE3UfRz: Connection refused... and it doesn't actually work.
Or can anyone suggest how to get around the dBus communication issue?
Have you actually tried connecting via VNC and if so, what goes wrong? What are the DBUS issues? I'm connecting to a lubuntu 12.10 desktop OK using the default gnome screen VNC server (whose name escapes me) and it works fine.
Cheers Steve