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  1. Bug #353126
  2. Comment #216

Comment 216 for bug 353126

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wild.ideas (wild-ideas) wrote : Re: Compiz / vnc screen refresh with nvidia-restricted driver/VirtualBox/ATI fglrx driver using X.org prior to release 7.5

This being the case, then at least "the developers"/Canonical should take the responsibility to produce the script you mention, "such that when someone connects to a machine that has desktop effects enabled, the effects could be automatically switched off for that remote control session, and then switched back on after disconnect."

They should include this script as part of the Lucid distro, and make it available in the repositories for 9.10, 9.04, etc. It should be enabled by default with an option to disable it (though I don't know why anyone would want to).

It may not be a "fix", but it would enable VNC/Remote Desktop to function in a straightforward way -- without having to know about this problem and what its workaround is. I seriously doubt anyone feels the need to have compiz doing eye candy tricks while using VNC, so it might even be considered a desirable "feature" even after this issue is fixed.