Cannot set vino preferences in Lubuntu 18.04

[Bill Miller]

Apparently the functionality of vino-preferences was merged into gnome-control-center for 18.04. But since Lubuntu does not include gnome-control-center, there is no way to set up vino.,

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: vino 3.22.0-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-22.24-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sat Jun 9 08:40:31 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-09 (91 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha i386 (20180306.1)
SourcePackage: vino
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Same problem here, but with Xubuntu 18.04.

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Xubuntu 18.04 :

utilisateur@ordinateur:~$ vino-preferences
vino-preferences : commande introuvable

Without that, how to enable desktop sharing, how to set a vnc password ?

I'm trying x11vnc but its thousands options are not easy to deal with.

And I just discovered Tigervnc is now available in Ubuntu-repository but am not sure how to make it autostart with session in my quite simple user-case…

Vino was rather simple and efficient for my little usage.

For reference : https://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=2027493

[Bill Miller (wbmilleriii)]

You can downgrade to version 3.8.1-0ubuntu12 from the xenial repos and it will work on bionic.

[Cesar Quintero (cquinteroj)]

If someone has problem with this I found a solution without install gnome-control-center here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/4474/enable-remote-vnc-from-the-commandline

[cmcanulty (cmcanulty)]

I had that same issue with xubuntu after 18.04 upgrade. First install vino. Mine was removed on upgrade without any notice. Also even after installing vino, the command vino-preferences doesn't work. Here is an easy workaround. Install dconf-editor then open it and go to org-gnome-desktop-remote access and turn off encryption. There are also several other remote options you can set in dconf-editor. However until you install vino, the remote-access doesn't show in dconf-editor. I hope someone can explain what happened to vino-preferences.

[Bill Miller (wbmilleriii)]

The settings for vino got moved into the general gnome desktop
preferences, and vino-preferences was removed without thinking about
those of use who don't use gnome :(

On 10/12/2018 11:37 AM, cmcanulty wrote:
> I had that same issue with xubuntu after 18.04 upgrade. First install
> vino. Mine was removed on upgrade without any notice. Also even after
> installing vino, the command vino-preferences doesn't work. Here is an
> easy workaround. Install dconf-editor then open it and go to org-gnome-
> desktop-remote access and turn off encryption. There are also several
> other remote options you can set in dconf-editor. However until you
> install vino, the remote-access doesn't show in dconf-editor. I hope
> someone can explain what happened to vino-preferences.
>

[ailton.b.s,j (ailtonbsj)]

Same to Lubuntu and Mint

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You can use another vnc server that the GNOME one for those usecases...

[skipx (bartok)]

Why "low", it's very annoying. Gone seems support for low end..

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Low because
- i doesn't impact the default Ubuntu Desktop
- it's easy to workaround by installing another vnc server

[faisal (thegreatwhiteshark)]

Xubuntu 18.04 :

You can downgrade to version 3.8.1-0ubuntu9 from the xenial repos (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/vino/3.8.1-0ubuntu9)

1. sudo apt remove vino
2. sudo apt install <path>vino_3.8.1-0ubuntu9_amd64.deb

after which it works with 'vino-preferences' command.

[jbeale (beale)]

I am disappointed vino is now incompatible with Lubuntu, apparently due to an arbitrary decision or possibly a simple oversight. With respect, "workaround by installing different software" could be said of any bug.

[Julio Mejia (juliomejia74)]

Hello I also had the same problem but the cause was the desktop I use kubuntu 19.10 and obviously KDE desktop when installing came I saw the suggestion to install an additional program for wine which allows its configuration in gnome and when trying to install this program suggests installing all the gnome desktop hahaha, solution? install krfb which is for KDE and that's it.