Why NX?? Re: remote desktop problem

[NoOp]

On 09/18/2009 03:33 PM, Patton Echols wrote:
> On 09/18/2009 01:45 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 09/18/2009 01:14 PM, Patton Echols wrote:
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>>>
>>> Is there a command line way to do it?  If I don't know that I will need 
>>> to access my desk computer I might not click the icon.  What I'd like to 
>>> be able to do is set up the ssh tunnel with port forwarding, from that 
>>> command line, turn off compiz remotely, then start the VNC viewer.  Is 
>>> that possible?
>>>     
>>
>> I wonder if something like this would work:
>> <http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/05/howto-automatically-disable-compiz-when.html>
>>   
> 
> Yeah, I saw that and some others that suggested the command |metacity 
> --replace .  I should have quoted my original post back.  When I did 
> that, all of my active windows turned useless, including the terminal 
> window I typed it in.  The script you linked has this command:
> ||metacity --replace > /dev/null & 
> I assumed that the "> /dev/null" was to just to catch whatever messages 
> and that it did not enhance the useage.  The "&" might make a 
> difference, though, so I'll try that.  Actually, i'll  try the entire 
> line, what the heck, can't break it permenantly.
...

OK. Check out these:

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/353126/comments/145/>
and my comment from this morning:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/353126/comments/148>