The mystery gets even bigger: using a windows machine with X-ming to get a remote session works fine. I have added screenshots from xming.jpg (the greeter as seen from xming, the windows pc itself viewed remotely using vnc) and vnc.jpg (the greeter directly using vnc).
And the mangled kde desktop in vnc-kde-jpg (viewed remote using vnc). Admitted, this suggests a problem in krdc (vnc). However, I can view other servers (debian etc), and as shown windows running a vnc server without problem. Ferry ** Attachment added: "xming.jpeg" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36337497/xming.jpeg -- Unreadable graphics in second X session https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491096 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs