* Re: [gentoo-user] Virtual Desktop with a Virtual Monitor?
@ 2021-11-07 22:33 99% ` Neil Bothwick
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From: Neil Bothwick @ 2021-11-07 22:33 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 13:39:34 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I've been playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 as a utility divice for a
> couple of purposes - a backup server for here at home as well as an
> astrophotography manager to run my camera and mount. So far everything
> is fine when I have a monitor attached. I can ssh in and run X apps,
> and I can run the VNC client and control the desktop.
>
> What I find, however, is that when I boot the RP4 without the
> monitor attached, which I would be doing most all the time, I lose the
> desktop functionality through VNC. I can still ssh X apps, and both
> xdpyinfo and xrandr still say the X resolution is 1920 x 1280, but
> there doesn't appear to be a real desktop for VNC to latch onto.
Try x2go instead of VNC. It uses SSH to establish the connection and
start a desktop session, so there is no need for the user to have a
desktop running on the remote machine beforehand.
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Neil Bothwick
Last words of a Windows user: = Why does that work now?
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