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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Virtual Desktop with a Virtual Monitor?
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 13:39:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ed0n4V2+2gx+UN0W3UavF+BdPFmfE=N1t2qDV-mCJRgEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,
   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.

   I get that this must be possible as essentially VirtualBox is able
to do this. I wonder if there's a way for mere mortals to do something
similar?

Thanks,
Mark


             reply	other threads:[~2021-11-07 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-07 20:39 Mark Knecht [this message]
2021-11-07 21:03 ` [gentoo-user] Virtual Desktop with a Virtual Monitor? Wol
2021-11-07 22:31   ` Mark Knecht
2021-11-08 16:34   ` Mark Knecht
2021-11-08 19:22     ` Andreas Stiasny
2021-11-08 19:48       ` Mark Knecht
2021-11-08 20:30         ` Laurence Perkins
2021-11-09 14:36           ` Mark Knecht
2021-11-07 22:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-11-07 23:06   ` Mark Knecht

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