Some versions of VNC have a bug in which the keyboard map is set up wrong. This means different characters appear on the remote machine to what you actually typed. Add the following to your ~/.vnc/xstartup just under the #!/bin/bash line. export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1 Ubuntu 10.10 users: If the ‘d’ key causes your windows to minimise [...]
The following command will chmod directories only recursively find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
These instructions cover establishing a secure (SSH) remote desktop session for a multiuser Ubuntu server. In other words this method will create a new desktop session for each user that connects. This setup was tested with ubuntu 9.10. Install VNC server sudo aptitude install vnc4server Edit the file $HOME/.vnc/xstartup. #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER #exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [...]