> i could not find a way to actually pass options I eventually managed to get a default configured Stretch box to accept a remote connection using:
mad@shuttle:~$ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/75-vnc-mad.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Device" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen" Device "Device" Option "PasswordFile" "/u2/home/mad/.vnc/passwd" EndSection mad@shuttle:~$ It seems, from the source, that the PasswordFile Option is only looked for in the Screen section and the Screen section has to have an Identifier and a Device, which has to refer to a Device section, which needs an Identifier. Argh, but, OK, whatever. Then I have other problems, both keeping the connection up and with redraw, but I fear that elaborating them here would be a hijack of the OP's bug, the main symptom of which - a horrible-sounding performance issue - I don't see with Gnome 3.
