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vnc screen is freezed, not fixed by rebooting

I had several programs running on a server, which I connect to with VNC Viewer. And for some reason firefox became unresponsive, and the screen froze. I followed these steps:

  1. vncserver kill -9 :1 to kill the process
  2. vncserver :1 to start a new one
  3. sudo reboot

However, when I reconnected, the screen was still frozen and I could not even move the mouse cursor. Here is a screenshot:

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Solution

  • Whoops! I found the reason for that, I had mistakenly checked the view-only checkbox. Here is the screenshot:

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