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How to control Vino from the command line

Just thought I’d put this out there so I can remember it:
For those that stumble upon this thread trying to start vino from the cli via a remote ssh connection look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1017746
at post #7
1. ssh to that machine and authenticate as x
2. sudo -s to become root
3. export DISPLAY=:0.0
4. xhost +
5. exit from root [...]