Comment 20 for bug 278489

The upstream bug (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577580) has a patch for libgtk-vnc that fixes the bug.

For those interested, you can apply it with:

1. Make a folder for the gtk-vnc git source code and download it:

mkdir gtk-vnc
cd gtk-vnc
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk-vnc

2. Apply the patch (http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=148702)

wget http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=148702 -o pointer-patch.diff
patch -p1 < pointerpatch.diff

3. Run the autobuild.sh command and install all the dev libraries it tells you are missing.

./autobuild.sh

I needed to install at least build-essential, libtool, python-gtk2-dev, and libsasl2-dev (ie Synaptic or with the sudo apt-get install command).

I got the error "libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed" at the end of the build, but the new library had been built successfully as build/src/.libs/libgtk-vnc-1.0.so.0.0.1 and I just needed to link it to /usr/lib/libgtk-vnc-1.0.so to get it working.