Comments on: HOWTO: Change VNCs Listen Port # in Ubuntu

By: david_steinlage

david_steinlage — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:50:53 +0000

Chad, you are right and I am sorry. There’s been some changes in the latest version of Ubuntu and the above steps don’t work anymore. I’ve added a disclaimer about this and will update the post as more info about why this doesn’t work anymore is found. Sorry for your trouble.

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:46:28 +0000

Does not work for me! I have tried changing the alternative_port key to 5901, 1, 5555. None of them work. It will only use 5900, not matter what is set in the key.

Anyone have a solution?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:22:29 +0000

Neither the GUI nor the gconf-editor option is available in 11.10. So how do we change the port vino listens on in Oneiric Ocelot?

By: Michel Graciano

Michel Graciano — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:35:01 +0000

You can try to use this command line too:
gconftool-2 -s -t int /desktop/gnome/remote_access/alternative_port 5901

I hope it could help. Thanks a lot for your tip.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:57:38 +0000

Thanks!