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Chan Kim
Asked: 2018-08-28 18:00:17 +0800 CST

tightVNC often crashes when pressing Alt-Tab (on ubunt 16.04, Xfce4)

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I recently received a new ubuntu 16.04 machine.
I installed tightVNC server and acccessing it using RealVNC from my windows 10 machine. For window manger, I'm using Xfce4. But when I press alt-tab (set to switch windows), very often the VNC is disconnected and I have restart the VNC connection (remove /tmp/.X1-lock and /tmp/.X11-unix .. and vncserver -geometry.. :1).
And this happens so often this morning and drives me crazy. I used to use centos and I expected everything will be breeze in installing but I seem to have more problems in ubuntu 16.4. How can I fix this problem?

shortcut-keys vnc 16.04 tightvncserver

1 Answers

  1. I just installed vnc4server and it looks it works just fine. When I resize the web browser violently, it doesn't crash. Definately tightvnc seems to have a bug.

    I did
    sudo apt-get install vnc4server
    to install vnc4server, and

    sudo update-alternatives --config vncserver
    and selected vnc4server in the list.

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