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On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 13:39:34 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I've been playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 as a utility divice for a |
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> couple of purposes - a backup server for here at home as well as an |
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> astrophotography manager to run my camera and mount. So far everything |
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> is fine when I have a monitor attached. I can ssh in and run X apps, |
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> and I can run the VNC client and control the desktop. |
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> What I find, however, is that when I boot the RP4 without the |
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> monitor attached, which I would be doing most all the time, I lose the |
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> desktop functionality through VNC. I can still ssh X apps, and both |
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> xdpyinfo and xrandr still say the X resolution is 1920 x 1280, but |
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> there doesn't appear to be a real desktop for VNC to latch onto. |
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Try x2go instead of VNC. It uses SSH to establish the connection and |
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start a desktop session, so there is no need for the user to have a |
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desktop running on the remote machine beforehand. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Last words of a Windows user: = Why does that work now? |
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