When you run Xvnc on its own, it allows n clients to connect to it. When LightDM runs it, it listens on the VNC port, and spawns an Xvnc for each connection (using the -inetd flag). In this way, there is only one connection per Xvnc instance. So the connections are unshareable.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589658 Title: Ubuntu 16.04 The AlwaysShared option for lightdm does not work. Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Setup lightdm on Ubuntu 16.04 s390x GA. Successfully updated software. Changed lightdm.conf to use the AlwaysShared option so that I could share a VNC session. This did not work. [LightDM] start-default-seat=seat0 [VNCServer] enabled=true command=/usr/bin/Xvnc -rfbauth /etc/vncpasswd -AlwaysShared #command=/usr/bin/Xvnc -rfbauth /etc/vncpasswd port=5901 width=1280 height=800 depth=24 [Seat:*] #[SeatDefaults] user-session=default Started two sessions but the second session does not mirror the first. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1589658/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
