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I'm running 8.04 (Hardy Heron) 32-bit desktop edition with all the
latest updates as of 6th June, 2008 @ 12:28.
This is obviously very minor from a technical standpoint and presumably
requires merely updating a simple message string, but it's just the kind
of thing that confuses and disheartens new users (and makes them think
that Ubuntu doesn't "Just work").
When a user enables the "Allow others to view your desktop" option within the
vino-preferences dialog box (System > Preferences > Remote Desktop), the
instruction:
Users can view your desktop using this command:
vncviewer [host_name]:0
is revealed.
With Hardy now using Vinagre as its remote viewer the command
"vncviewer" is no longer available by default (requiring the manual
installation of xvnc4viewer, or alternative package). Unwitting users
will be attempting to run the suggested command only to be presented
with an error message when they do so. Moreover, it seems that Vinagre
requires the host name suffixed with the TCP/IP port number (e.g.
:5900), and not the VNC session number (e.g. :0). Finally, it might be
more helpful to those new to networking if the IP address rather than
the host name were used in the example command. For those using static
addressing, the former will only work if there is a corresponding entry
in the hosts file.
Apart from these things the example command string is fine as it is ;-)
** Affects: vinagre (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Misleading instructions in Remote Desktop (vino-preferences) settings panel on
Hardy
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/237883
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