When Desktop Effects are enabled, the Remote Desktop Viewer Stops Updating

[Daniel Barber]

Binary package hint: yelp

If I enable Desktop Effects (through System->Appearance menu), my VNC Client stops getting updated image data over Remote Desktop. The client only sees the desktop wallpaper. The client can still control the remote machine, if I watch the computer physically I can see the mouse cursor moving around and clicking on things, but the client sees only Desktop Background. This was also a problem in Jaunty which has not been resolved yet. Turning off all Desktop Effects resolves the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 19 09:33:20 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686