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I have the ability to VNC into a remotely hosted ubuntu session with VNC after I've logged into that desktop session locally on that machine. My problem comes when I want to restart the computer (lands on the graphical prompt).

More importantly to me if this graphical server is logged in I can ssh in and direct my display to :0 and run a vmplayer process in that session and RDP to it. 

export DISPLAY=:0; 
nohup vmrun -T player start /vms/winsvr2012/winsvr2012.vmx gui &

Unfortunately this can only be done after I've actually got a graphical session running at the other end. (Basically I need to be there in person to start the computer and start the session).

What I want to do is run wakeonlan remotely and get into a remote graphical session, so I can start persistent graphical programs. I've had no success with: startx xpra

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  • I've simply had to make ubuntu boot straight into a graphical session, unfortunately now I it seems I cannot automatically lock the screen - so I simply need to wait for the lock to turn on after 1minute. But it does the job at least. (I've googled a bit)
    – rupert160
    May 2, 2016 at 10:08

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