Remote desktop on kubuntu

So Im down at the summer house, but before I left Stockholm i needed to fix remote access to my home system.

Well I have had access via ssh to my home system regardless where I am but I would prefer so really control my desktop on my home server from anywhere.

So I started looking into how to do this. Preferable secure and safe and all that. 🙂

So my home system is a kubuntu 8,04 and yes I know its kind of old but i don’t want to upgrade it yet.

So i first started out trying the built in version krfb. Well regardless of what I tried I could not get it to work. I could connect to the system but as soon as I did that it crashed. So i investigated a bit and found a number of similar post out there so its not unheard of.

So what to do?

Well the solution is to remove that and get x11vnc working instead.

So I installed this with apt-get:

Then logout and restart the Xserver just to make sure all things are loaded correctly. Just to be paranoid I setup a password with vncpasswd to be used so that its harder to login.

Then you can login to the system and forward the defalt vnc port (5900) to the remote machine, start x11vnc on that system and it will work.

So on your local system start the ssh:

When youhave logged in to your remote system, fire up x11vnc:

And back on you local system in another window start up vncviewer:

and you should get a copy of your remote desktop.

padevchooser won’t start

Today I’m down it the summerhouse and as im mowing lawns I decided to convert some of my audiobooks.

So I fired up Virtualbox and started my itunes in there. Then i decided to check the route to my spekaers and clicked on the pulseaudio applet. But wait its not in the taskbar.

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SciFi slut på veckan

I går var det fredag och dags att varva ned inför helgen 🙂

Som vnligt var det Statrek Voyager på SciFi kanelen kl 6:40. Sen var det Så ska det Låta på TV1 vid 8.

Fortsättningen var Stargate Universe på TV6 som äntligen är igång igen efter det att det varit Ishockey för hela slanten.

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Wishlist for birthday

Here is my wish list for my birthday.

Audiobooks:

Crashlander, by Larry Niven
Dune The Butlerian Jihad, by Brian Herbert

T-Skirts, XXXL

Underwear shorts, cotton, brief, black, xl

Stolt morfar

Jaha, då är det vinter igen.

Efter att ha vart ganska fint hela veckan så belutade jag mej för att dra ned på elementen framför allt i sovrummet eftersom jag gillar att ha det svalt när jag sover.

Men det skulle man som sagt inte gjort. I går var det 4 grader varmt (eller kallt) och regnade. Så det vara bara att dra upp elementen lite granna

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