HEYMIKEY.ORG » Showthread http://www.heymikey.org He likes IT! Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:43:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 How to control Vino from the command line http://www.heymikey.org/2010/01/how-to-control-vino-from-the-command-line/ http://www.heymikey.org/2010/01/how-to-control-vino-from-the-command-line/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:35:14 +0000 mkotschi http://www.heymikey.org/?p=580 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 shell using exit
6. export DISPLAY=:0.0
7. start vino-server using /usr/lib/vino/vino-server

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