Bug Description

Binary package hint: vino

Vino, the built in VNC server in Ubuntu, has had a problem for many releases where it won't update the display when connected remotely if compositing is enabled.

I honestly don't know why it was shipped with this version since compositing is now required and enabled by default, but Vino doesn't work if compositing is enabled.

After upgrading to Natty there is no user-facing way to disable compositing, so the built-in remote control application is now completely useless.

This is a core functionality of a desktop operating system and it has been broken in Ubuntu for several major releases ( see bug 353126 which was opened on 2009-4-1).

If if it's not a core functionality to everyone and that's just my opinion, it doesn't make any sense to ship a desktop OS with a broken remote control service. I don't know of any other desktop OS that ships with a remote desktop functionality that is completely broken out of the box.

ProblemType: Bug

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04

Package: vino 2.32.1-0ubuntu2

ProcVersionSign ature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2

Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64

NonfreeKernelMo dules: fglrx

Architecture: amd64

Date: Thu Apr 28 19:28:50 2011

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)

ProcEnviron:

LANGUAGE=en_US:en

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

SHELL=/bin/bash

SourcePackage: vino

UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (0 days ago)