Re: [gentoo-user] Virtual Desktop with a Virtual Monitor?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 3:34 PM Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Looks interesting. Thanks Neil.

Mark