I have a spare computer that I was going to install Xubuntu 9.10 on, and use as a media machine that connects to the TV. However, right now I don't have any means to connect the device to the TV, so I have to use VNC to access it via another computer.

Now my question is, how do I go about setting that up? Setting up ssh was a breeze - all you had to do was install ssh and open up a port in the firewall. With VNC, not so easy. I've tried installing vino and xvncserver and some other packages, but I can't seem to get it to work. I can connect to the computer if I manually run vino-server on the host - but I don't get any graphical display. It just says I'm connected.