I’d like to request that you add one more option: The remote host port number for the SSH connection. Reason: It’s not good practice to expose an open Port 22 to the Internet; it attracts relentless break-in attempts from all over the world.

I use a custom port number for SSH into my VNC server machine (hidden and controlled by UFW & FWKNOP in my case). My router port-forwards this port for incoming SSH, while blocking port 22 traffic. Port 22 use is then restricted to use only within my LAN (for convenience).

In addition, since I have more than one VNC server to connect to, I use different ports to “direct traffic” to the intended machine on my LAN.

Both of these needs prevent use of Port 22 for outside VNC tunneling. Using my custom ports works fine, is secure, does not draw break-in attempts, and allows me to pick & choose which machine I connect to.

The problem is, the “Use host” feature on ‘vinagre’ does not allow me to specify the port to direct my connection to, and it needs to do this.

Note that “Connect to server…” in ‘nautilus’ *does* allow you to specify the port number — and this application *is* compatible with the connection scheme I just mentioned. We need ‘vinagre’ to be equally compatible, so it needs similar features.

Thanks!

I am currently using a much older version of Vinagre (which is a very handy program ) and I have just been wondering whether the shortcuts like Ctrl+W for Close Connection, Ctrl+S for Save Connection, F9 for bookmarks etc. are still in use by Vinagre.

The reason is that I frankly find these shortcuts very annoying and very unnecessary, as I am unable to use Ctrl+S to save a document I am editing on a remote machine (and F9 for ‘compile and run’ in Delphi 7). It seems, in this older version 0.5.1 at least, that there is no way to disable the shortcuts or remove the shortcut buttons panel below the menu’s (it takes up some space and isn’t used all the time).

Anyway, all the best for you and your’s.

RDP and better ssh options. For SSH I need to be able to specify username . I dont need the billion and 1 options of putty but here are some biggies.

- Specify Username (and remember it with password)
- Use an RSA key for authentication
- X11 forwarding
- Remote and Local Port forwarding/tunneling

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libgtk-vnc-1.0-0
and
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/vinagre

And I think we’re all waiting for rdp support no pressure lol