Xubuntu 11.10 vnc server
I've recently decided to use my desktop as a server without keyboard/screen.  To accomplish that I needed a way to connect to the machine so I went off VNC hunting.  After lots of research I've found a couple of useful forum posts at the Ubuntu Forum . For the sake of simplicity I summarize them here.   Install x11vnc  sudo apt-get install x11vnc  Setup vnc password  sudo x11vnc -storepasswd PaSsWoRd /etc/x11vnc.pass  Configure x11vnc to start when your system starts  Create /etc/init/x11vnc.conf file and add this as a content:   start on login-session-start     script       x11vnc -display :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0  -forever -bg -o /var/log/x11vnc.log  -rfbauth /etc/x11vnc.pass -rfbport 5900    end script  Test it with RealVNC or TightVNC   It was all working fine until I noticed that the screen resolution that I wanted to use wasn't available in xfce. ie.: my screen is 1680x1050 and I've got a vnc session with 1600x1200.