[LightDM] can't connect to display before login

[Robert Ancell]

There are multiple Xvnc servers available on Ubuntu, the
tightvncserver package contains one.

On 19 October 2011 09:08, Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> wrote:
> * Alfonso Fiore <alfonso.fiore at gmail.com> [2011-10-18 23:44]:
>> Hello Guido,
>>
>> thank you so much. It sounds great.
>>
>> Now my /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf looks like:
>>
>> [SeatDefaults]
>> greeter-session=unity-greeter
>> user-session=ubuntu
>>
>> [VNCServer]
>> enabled=true
>> port=5900
>>
>> but after restarting lightdm (sudo restart lightdm) the port is not open:
>>
>> dude at box:~$ netstat -ln | grep 5900
>> dude at box:~$
>>
>> I also tried to reboot, but the result is the same.
>>
>> do you have any suggestion? maybe some missing package?
>
> Do you have Xvnc installed? I don't know what package it's in
> since I don't use Ubuntu.
> --
> Guido Berhoerster
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