VNC Issues

[Vincent]

Matthew S-H wrote:

> I have recently been using VNC quite often to access my desktop when 
> away.
> Recently, I have run into some problems though:
>
> 1. Speed. Note that this is a NEW issue. Up until a day or two ago, I 
> was able to run VNC at a tolerable speed. Now, however, it seems to be 
> lagging tremendously. It takes practically forever just to see the 
> mouse move. And NO settings were changed on the client. It should be 
> noted that I upgraded to Hoary right after the final release and that 
> this problem started occurring some time within the last week (I have 
> been on a /vacation/ from VNC for the past week). This bothers me, 
> however, because I commonly use the computer over VNC.
>
> 2. Startup. This is a problem I can more easily describe. The VNC 
> server doesn't start until I log in. I often-times must reboot my 
> computer remotely. After a reboot, I am unable to access the computer 
> (graphically--I can still use SSH) until I can physically sit in front 
> of the computer and login to GNOME. Is there any way to get around 
> this? My ideas (although I don't know how to do them) are the following:
> a) Modify some startup file to start the VNC server immediately so 
> that I can use it to login.
> b) Use the command line (via SSH) to either:
> b1) Login to GNOME
> b2) Start the VNC server
>
> Note that my temporary solution to this problem has been to set up my 
> computer to automatically log me in after 2 minutes. Although this 
> works, it is not desirable. i would rather not allow unrestricted 
> login to someone without a password, and I would rather not wait 2 
> minutes (which is less of a problem).
>
>
> Anyway, thank you very much for your help. Any and all responses will 
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> ~Matt

I had the same issue with rebooting my server and discovered in the 
setting it is possible to automatically log a user after some idle time 
in the session manager. Using this, my vnc server is always on :)

As for the slowdown, i kinda noticed it too, but it wasn't too 
unbearable so i didn't pay attentio to it

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Vincent