How to enable VNC (Vino) on Ubuntu (Gnome)
The way I'm going to describe is using the GDM autologin which can be UNSECURE if someone has physical access to the machine.
Activate autologin in gdm by editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add:
AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=yourusername
Reboot.
Then ssh as yourusername into the machine, and type this:
DISPLAY=:0.0 gconftool-2 --type list --list-type string --set /desktop/gnome/remote_access/authentication_methods '[vnc]' gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/prompt_enabled false vino-passwd gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled true
Reboot.
Then try connecting to your machine using VNC.
Source: By Weboide in How do i install gnome on Debian and remote to it? [serverfault.com]
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