Ubuntu 10.04 VNC Keymapping problem
You may find that if you connect to your Ubuntu 10.04 machine with VNC, the 's' key is incorrectly mapped to initiating the logout menu on the Desktop. The current best solution I can find so far is as follows, adopted from jarondl here . Rewrite ~/.vnc/xstartup as follows: ##!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid navy # Choose your color x-window-manager & { (gnome-panel 2> /dev/null &) } xterm &