[mdlug] sharing a remote desktop between two remote users

[Robert Citek]

Thanks.  That worked well for the keyboard and seemed to make the
desktop look more like a standard Gnome desktop.

There are still a few more minor issues:

- logging out - doesn't seem to finish the sequence but rather hangs
at a blank desktop.  Workaround is to kill the vnc process:

$ cat .vnc/Ubuntu904-64bit\:1.pid | xargs kill

- resizing desktop window - it's just a few pixels too small.  I can
resize it smaller but not larger.  Workaround: scroll up/down and
left/right.

- maximizing desktop window - immediately closes the client connection
with an error.  Workaround: reconnect.

Those are minor annoyances which I can live with and address later.

The question is, how to share the desktop with another remote user?  I
tried connecting again using tsclient from the same machine, but that
didn't work.  It appears as though you can have only one tsclient
connection at a time to a remote server.  Will try from another
machine.

Regards,
- Robert

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Mark Thuemmel <ldaphelp at thuemmel.com> wrote:
> or maybe this:
>
> Perhaps you can try this:
>
> 1. edit your $HOME/.vnc/xstartup
> 2. put the line "export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1" before your gnome-session.
> 3. restart vncserver.
>
> credit to this link.
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190865#c7
>
>
> Mark Thuemmel wrote:
>> How about reset keyboard setting to default in gnome
>> (system-preferences-keyboard) and then restart vnc?
>>
>> Robert Citek wrote:
>>> The headless machine is running Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 Server and local is
>>> running Ubuntu 8.04 i386.
>>>
>>> This is what I've tried so far.
>>>
>>> On the headless machine:
>>> $ sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
>>> $ tightvncserver
>>> create password
>>>
>>> On the local machine:
>>> Applications > Internet > Terminal Server Client
>>> specified computer:port, VNC, and username
>>> on clicking Connect, I entered the password I created for the VNC session
>>>
>>> A window then appeared showing my remote desktop (not perfectly, but
>>> good enough for now.)
>>>
>>> Opened gedit on the remote desktop with Applications > Accessories >
>>> Text Editor.  However, key entry is completely foobared.  Typing "abc"
>>> produces "asd" and neither the backspace nor escape key works.  And
>>> logging out doesn't quite complete -- there's just a blank desktop.
>>>
>>> Regards,
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