Re: VNC development plan - discuss

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi Jeff,

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 09:42 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>
> Speaking of vino,
> when you have vino active and you are logged in remotely, the local
> console display is also active, at least through fc6. Is this a
> designed feature, or is this a current codebase limitation?

	It's purely a current limitation, for sure.

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311780

	Basically, the problem is that Vino just scrapes the contents of the
root window and exports that. So, if the screensaver is rendering to the
root window, then there's not much Vino can do.

Cheers,
Mark.