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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #199245
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 199245

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Jason J. Herne (hernejj) wrote :

The "Slow VNC" thing everyone is noticing is actually NOT directly related to VNC. So trying new VNC servers/clients will not help, unfortunately.

I suspect that this slowness in my VNC sessions (and probably yours too) is coming from something in the Gnome session... Very likely gnome-settings-daemon..

if you edit your ~/.vnc/xstartup file (make sure it is executable) and have it JUST start an xterm and then from that xterm you launch nautilus and gnome-panel then everything works perfectly!! No slowdowns... ultra fast. As is should be! ;) As it was in Gutsy. So this is a potential workaround. I'm currently using it (even though it is a little bit of a hassle) until the main problem is fixed.

I believe that gnome-settings-daemon is causing the slowness because one time I logged in to a normal gnome session via vnc and gnome-settings-daemon failed to start and everything was fast, as it is supposed to be.

So if I were debugging this, I would start looking at gnome-settings-daemon. :) Let me know if I can be of more assistance.