I posted the following to the Gnome Reddit and receive no response, so I'm wondering if anyone here has been able to get this combination working.
------------------- I've been trying to get Vinagre 3.22.0 on my Debian Gnome 3.38.2 desktop (already installed dependency) to work with the RealVNC server installed and running on a Raspberry Pi 4 running the latest up-to-date Raspberry Pi OS. The VNC connection works with the RealVNC viewer but it has a long EULA (non-libre) and is not well integrated (theming, etc.) into the Gnome desktop. So far Vinagre has resisted all of my efforts to get it to talk to the VNC server running on the Pi and each time I try I immediately get an error dialog that the connection was closed. I presume this is an authentication issue since the RealVNC viewer has a dialog for me to enter the username and password. The minimal help file for Vinagre makes mention of a .vnc file but does not explain or reference the format such a file should take. I was able to export the connection information from RealVNC viewer into a .vnc file, but Vinagre cannot use it. First it errored that there was no group in the key file so I created a group and then it errored that the group was not appropriately named Connections, so I fixed that and now immediately get the dialog that the connection was closed. ------------------- At first I thought of RDP and had installed xrdp on the Pi and I seemed to get a connection to it from Vinagre but would only get a cyan screen and a gray box in the center, reminiscent of Motif apps that would freeze and not update the UI from long, long ago. Web searches showed that the gray box was supposed to be a login to the desktop, but the dialog never rendered even waiting for many minutes. Then I read a blog post that asserted the xrdp was interfered with by the RealVNC server being installed so I opted to try in instead and removed xrdp and its associated packages. Now, if I could get xrdp to work with Vinagre, I'd probably be quite happy with that. The aforementioned blog post discussed removing the realvnc* packages to allow xrdp to work, so perhaps that is worth a try. TIA - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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