Getting Started

2.1. Starting Vinagre

You can start Vinagre in the following ways:

Applications menu

Choose Internet ▸ Remote Desktop Viewer.

Command line

Execute the following command: vinagre

2.2. Starting Vinagre from a command line

You can run Vinagre from a command line and connect to a single machine or multiple machines. To connect to a machine from a command line, type the following command, then press Return:

vinagre hostname_or_ip_address

For more information on how to run Vinagre from a command line, see the unix manual page for Vinagre, Vinagre(1).

2.3. The Vinagre Window

Figure 1Vinagre window

The Vinagre window contains the following elements:

Menubar

The menus on the menubar contain all of the commands you need to work with remote connections in Vinagre.

Toolbar

The toolbar contains a subset of the most used commands that you can access from the menubar.

Display Area

The display area contains a list of tabs with the connected machines and their remote desktops.

Statusbar

The statusbar displays information about current Vinagre activity and contextual information about the menu items.

Side Pane

The side pane contains a list of bookmarked connections and (if available) a list of auto-discovered network machines.

2.4. Some notes about Vinagre

As a tool to access other machines, Vinagre behaves slightly different than other GNOME applications in its default installation.

Vinagre comes with menu accelerators and keyboard shortcuts disabled by default. This avoids keys being intercepted by Vinagre when you wanted to send those keys to the remote machine.

For instance, the keyboard shortcut to close a tab is Ctrl+W, but that key combination will be sent to the remote machine by default.

If you want to change this behavior, go to Vinagre preferences in Edit ▸ Preferences.