Re: Configuring vnc server vino gnome

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 11:47 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I don't know why you picked gnome-shell-list and gconf-list for a 
> Vino/Vinagre question; this has nothing to do with gnome-shell, and 
> gconf is a deprecated component that is not being used by 
> vino/vinagre.
>
> Since neither Vino nor Vinagre have a mailing list, you should use 
> desktop-devel-list instead; I Cc'ed it, so let's move the discussion 
> there.
>
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
>
> On 13 July 2015 at 11:27, Bart Mariën <bart marien bednet be> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We're in the progress of migrating 500 machines from debian 7 to 8. 
> >
> > Debian 8 comes with gnome 3.14
> >
> > We have noticed a small but quite annoying change related to the 
> > configuration of the vino service.
> > We use vino extensively for remote support. Configuration is done 
> > with puppet.
> >
> > In gnome  3.4 all configuration options for vino can be set through 
> > gsettings. The vino service has a very practical 'enabled' 
> > parameter that we just have to set to true.
> >
> > In gnome 3.14, the setting is still there, but it doesn't work. 
> > When we watch the dconf database, and enable the vino service 
> > through the gnome 'sharing' panel, we see that the UUID of the 
> > network connection profile (networkmanager) is set in the dconf 
> > paramter /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/sharing/vino
> > -server/enabled-connections, which then enables the vino service.
> >
> > From a management perspective this is not very helpful => you don't 
> > know the uuid beforehand...
> > Any idea's how we can manage the vino service, with making a ugly 
> > hack?
> > These devices aren't multi-user, so we always as which user the 
> > settings have to be set. We have full control over the devices and 
> > the build process.

The answer is simple.

Start vino-server through the vino-server.desktop file, by dropping it
in /etc/xdg/autostart (or the equivalent location in the user's home
directory).

Cheers