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I am away from my Ubuntu machine and was working on it via VNC. I had to sign out of a user account and I lost my Ubuntu VNC connection. I am assuming the VNC server is not running since Ubuntu is sitting at the sign in screen.

I still have ssh access to the machine. I was wondering if it is possible to sign into a (desktop) user account via ssh so the VNC server will come back online?

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  • This may still work in 12.10 (untested): http://askubuntu.com/questions/25189/remote-login-with-graphical-display-manager-gdm-lightdm – Takkat Feb 12 '13 at 15:32

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I solved this by running and sudo reboot command from inside of the ssh session I still had access too. Luckily, my system is set to auto sign-in to the main account on the computer, so I had VNC access again after it booted up.

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