How set vino preferences in Xubuntu 18.04 ?

What are you wanting to do on the remote system once you connect? There is probably a sleeker solution than vino

Hi actionparsnip.

I want to see the screen and I want the user in front of that screen sees what I am doing when he calls for help.

It's on a local network, but big building ;-)
TeamViewer or AnyDesk seem a bit too much in that situation.

Any idea welcome !

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Oh OK cool. Makes sense.

https://medium.com/@aldo_mx/simplest-way-to-configure-vnc-server-in-xubuntu-16-04-lts-and-newer-6c0b3ae21fe5

Hey thanks for that interesting link but still the same problem :

in Xubuntu 18.04 the command

vino-preferences

no longer exists !

Maybe one of these pages helps:

Either use gnome-control-center
https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-remote-desktop-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux
https://websiteforstudents.com/access-ubuntu-18-04-lts-beta-desktop-via-vnc-from-windows-machines/

or directly modify the dconf settings
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1031594-start-0.html
https://askubuntu.com/questions/589062/ubuntu-mate-where-is-vino-in-dconf

Ahem…

Xubuntu ( or Lubuntu ) does NOT have gnome-control-center by default.

Months ago, it was possible in non-gnome environment to launch vino-preferences to enable desktop sharing.

That command ( vino-preferences ) seems to have disappeared in 18.04.
Because it is replaced by same kind of options into gnome-control-center ( or lookalike, in Budgie ).

But how to find again access to these options about desktop sharing in ubuntu-flavors where there is no g-c-c ???

Links all speak about vino-preferences or gnome-control-center or dconf editing, which are :
- obviously outdated for the first,
- depending on gnome environment for other two.

Hence the question and bug.

You may (auto)start vino-server and set some parameters for it through gsettings but an important one is missing, setting a password for the vnc connexion ( or let's say it's too tricky for me I admit ).

Now if to be set easily vino needs g-c-c then g-c-c might be included in dependencies ?

Alternatives may be x11vnc or tigervnc not as friendly ( at first sight, I did not try tigervnc yet on ubuntu ) as vino-preferences was. So for the moment non-gnome DE may lack an easy way to run a correctly set vnc server.

…alternatives I just discovered while trying to sort this out ( https://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=2027493 ).

Problem eventually solved if we consider installing gnome-control-center in [X|L]ubuntu as an answer.

And you're of course right about the « it should not come as a surprise » - my surprise was that vino-preferences worked ago, and no longer do, I first thought about some kind of oversight somewhere. It's not.

Thanks for patience and explanations.

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

Defining vino as "depends" on gnome-control-center is not correct, because it works without.
According to https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/vino gnome-control-center is already defined as "suggests" for vino. Maybe it could be upgraded to "recommends".