Gnomes like wine and vinegar

gnome3 – How can I connect to Gnome 3 with a Windows VNC client? Got “rightly” answered on Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Here are some other possible solutions:

1. Disable Vino encryption, and then setup an SSH tunnel
2. Use a VNC client compatible with Vino’s TLS version: Android: bVNC Free, Windows: SSVNC, Linux: vinagre
3. Use a different VNC server, such as tigervnc or x11vnc
4. Use a different VNC server, such as tightvnc, with a different desktop manager, such as MATE, Xfce, LXDE, etc.

The first is not a solution, but a user-made security hole, unless you allow only localhost connections to vnc. The real issue is that I wasn’t aware that vinagre supported the TLS encryption used by vino.

As usual program names of free-as-in-freedom software are full of puns:

• “Vino” – the Vnc server used in Gnome – means “wine” in italian
• “Vinagre” sounds like the french “vinaigre”, meaning vinegar that is made out of wine.