vino-server on a laptop

[Carlos A. Paramio]

> my laptop is at home now, connected to the internet. and i'm in my
> office writing this mail. i want to connect to my open gnome session on
> my laptop with vnc. so i ssh into my laptop, launch vino-server, and
> connect to the laptop using vncviewer. but all i get is a black screen!
> so i tought: "this could be the screensaver"... killall -KILL
> xscreensaver, but nothing. still black. could this be because the lid of
> the laptop is closed, and so the screen is powered off, and so i can't
> see my gnome session? is there a workaround?

Probably vino-server is not attaching to your actually running X
session. Instead, try to ssh to your machine with -X parameter, and then
launch vino-preferences. The corresponding window appears. Activate it
and try again.
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