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I am trying to get vino-server to work via ssh on an Ubuntu 17.04 machine. Specifically, I want to set the option that 'other users are able to view my desktop'. Ubuntu's documentation on vino states to set this option via the gui (i.e., Menu > Settings > Remote Access). However, I cannot access the gui on my remote machine, so I am looking for a configuration file where I can set this 'other users able to view my desktop' option. Does anyone know which configuration file this is?

An older post from 2010 states that I can access this configuration file via ~/.gconf, however there is no ~/.gconf folder, nor a gconf.xml file anywhere on my machine.

zummer
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Try something like this? gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled true

Source: https://linuxexplore.com/tips-tricks/configure-remote-desktop-from-command-line/

Not sure where these things are actually stored, but gconf is generally modified by issuing commands via gconftool or some other CLI tool.

Brian Sizemore
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The relevant settings are not contained in a configuration file as such - but in the dconf database associated with the remote desktop session that you are trying to view. You can modify them using either

DISPLAY=:0 gsettings set org.gnome.Vino view-only 'true'
DISPLAY=:0 gsettings set org.gnome.Vino enabled 'true'

or

DISPLAY=:0 dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/remote-access/view-only  'true'
DISPLAY=:0 dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/remote-access/enabled 'true'

(adjust the DISPLAY value if :0 is not your remote physical desktop).

steeldriver
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