Questions tagged [vnc]
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that can be used to control a computer remotely.
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Cannot authenticating with AD user to RHEL 8 through xRDP
In order to authenticate to an existing ADFS environement connected to keycloak using DeviceAuthentication, I configured my RHEL 8 workstation and I'm able to authenticate with AD user with command ...
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Redhat 8 and xorg.conf and x11-xorg-drv-dummy and console monitor and VNC
For RHEL 8 not having an nvidia graphics card, I had instructions given to me to do a yum install xorg-x11-drv-dummy followed by creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf with
Section "Device"
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lightdm: neither xdmcp nor vnc providing remote session
I want to be able to connect remotely to my daily driver (Debian 11) within my LAN from my laptop and other devices. Ssh works fine but niether Chrome nor Firefox are happy running over ssh / some ...
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TigerVNC Unable to Start Systemd Service
I recently followed a guide I found here: How to Install VNC Server on RHEL 8 to create a VNC session for a given user. I have since created a new user account: engineer and updated the systemd ...
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sdl gui based app on remote connection via x11vnc
am trying to open sdl gui based program in freebsd system from remote connection via x11vnc.
there is no display connected to the pc therefor i used a dummy driver.
keep getting this error
libGL ...
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How to stream local audio to HTTP
How can I set up a HTTP audio streaming server that I can access on http://localhost:8080 without specialized software or configuration on the local side? (the remote side, which streams the audio, ...
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Forwarding X11 Displays to VNCs On RHEL8/RHEL9
On previous versions of RHEL (RHEL5/6/7 at least) it was possible to create run a vncserver (from tigervnc-server) and forward X11 displays from another server by exporting the DISPLAY environment ...
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VNC doesn't work with newer versions of Ansys
We have a group of Linux workstations that run various engineering applications. One of these is Ansys. Remote users connect to the workstations using VNC to run the Ansys workbook (GUI) to work on ...
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Turn Off screen for VNC use
I am trying to use a machine for vnc.
I want the screen to be always off to save energy. I have tried to set the brightness to 0 but continues on. My idea is for example to change the terminal or ...
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Any free vncs with relative mouse input?
I have a gentoo tigervnc-server that I use to connect to my pc from work to slack off, the main problem is that I cannot play anything 3D, this is due to tigervnc using a absolute mouse input, It ...
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map a rectangle of my desktop to ~hdmi or ~vnc/rdp, including mouse/pen
<detailing a bit more of what I'm trying to accomplish to avoid X:Y problem>
I must mark up (pen) numerous images, saving off the marked-up ~pngs both in-place or into another document. The ...
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How to get GUI application to run on the cloud?
How to run Blender GUI on headless Oracle Cloud through VNC?
The compute must be VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro (AMD processor) or VM.Standard.A1.Flex (ARM processor). Both can be tried on their free tier. I ...
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Unable to Establish VNC Display on Ubuntu 20.04 Jetson Nano without HDMI Connection. Shows 'DISPLAY' environment variable not set... when i SSH
I have tried the following troubleshooting steps without success:
Manually setting the DISPLAY environment variable as both DISPLAY=:1 and DISPLAY="my ip:1".
Verifying the display variable ...
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Connecting to local Linux server from iOS through USB only
What I want to achieve
I have a VNC server running on Linux laptop and I want to connect to it from my old iPad 3 running iOS 9 (kinda a second screen). The problem is that it can't connect to WiFi at ...
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Prevent VNC from binding to IPv6 address
I have disabled IPv6 and I have found options to prevent MySQL, Postfix, CUPS and Telnet from binding to the IPv6 interface.
However, I can't find a way to disable it for VNC.
tcp6 0 0 :::...
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How to change default DISPLAY environment variable in RHEL8
I'm in a weird spot in which I'm trying to run an independent vnc server on display localhost:1, but given that I am running Gnome, that display is already being used by the desktop itself.
I do not ...
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can't start VNC server from a service, Works fine when started from terminal TigerVNC + noVNC
I have a VNC setup using TigerVNC and noVNC on my linux machine (Ubuntu 20.4). It works perfectly when started it from terminal but I want to start it from a service so that it can auto start on boot ...
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Ubuntu Remote Desktop through Real VNC error "The connection closed unexpectedly"
I have installed ubuntu on a PC at a remote site. Now I wanted to access it from my home. I got it after I promptly followed the instructions on https://linuxhint.com/disable-screen-lock-ubuntu/ That ...
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Accessing Ubuntu through RealVNC from my window laptop: Protocol error Message type 20
I am trying to VNC into my Ubuntu Desktop from my laptop using Real VNC. Real VNC on my laptop sees the Ubuntu but it is not clearly visible. It displays a message
Attempting to reconnect to VNC ...
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Trouble getting TigerVNC working with current X11 session
I have a remote PC with a RTX600 GPU and nVidia drivers on Fedora 36 with two physical monitors attached. I'm trying to remote into the current X11 session but getting strange behavior.
I'm using ...
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VNC over wifi/wlan not working but works over ethernet
I am trying to use vnc over wifi on a Jetson Xavier on L4T using tightvnc. It works fine over ethernet but I would like to use it over wifi for a wireless connection.
I have tried to get it to work ...
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I can't connect to x11vnc from different network
I am trying to connect from my laptop (with Linux Mint) to my remote desktop (with Linux Mint too) using VNC Viewer on my laptop and x11vnc on my desktop. I manage to connect if I am on the same ...
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AlmaLinux 8.7 xrdp Remote Desktop Setup
I recently set up xrdp on my AlmaLinux 8.7 machine using the following guide: Access AlmaLinux 8 remote desktop using Windows RDP
The setup was successful, and I am able to access the machine remotely,...
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"Real" VNC for Ubuntu 22.04?
I have Ubuntu 22.04 running on an RPi4b. I use the free VNC-Connect on my Windows PC. But I can't figure out how to get the server installed on Ubuntu.
I downloaded the Linux install file from realvnc....
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How to set up a Linux server for remotely starting a XFCE desktop environment from a VNC client?
My problem
Assuming:
I have a macOS system with a VNC client (Screens 4)
I have a Rocky Linux 9 system installed on a server without monitor, keyboard, mouse...
Rocky Linux 9 was installed with ...
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Xfce VNC high res on small screen
I am trying to setup VNC on my phone. Everything works, but either the text is too small for my phone when VNC is at high res (1920x1080) or looks blured when I scale the resolution down to get a ...
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RealVNC Viewer on Raspberry Boot
I have a main Raspberry Pi in one room and a second one in other room. My software is running on the main Pi and i'd like the second one to just mirror the first one. RealVNC is fine, but i can't ...
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Debian Bullseye RDP/VNC blank scree or "Oh no! Something went wrong" issue
My laptop is running Debian Bullseye installed with all default selections of tasksel, so basically Gnome 3.8.35, Wayland and X11.
It's been days I've been trying to control my laptop that is on the ...
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TigerVNC segfaults X on startup
I'm trying to setup TigerVNC + VGL on my archlinux, with an Nvidia RTX3090 graphic card, propriatary driver.
I've followed instructions from Arch's wiki : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VirtualGL ...
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"Failed to enable unit" error enabling vncserver on RHEL 9
I have installed Tiger VNC Server on RHEL 9, but when I try to enable the service I get the following error:
# systemctl enable [email protected]
Failed to enable unit: File multi-user.target: ...
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Tiger VNC Wayland Issue
I've more or less setup tiger-vnc with this guide:
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/centos-install-and-configure-vnc-server/
The problem I'm facing is that when I enable the following, I am unable ...
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Why I can not open some application through vnc view
my VNC server run in ubuntu, and I use VNC Viewer in windows to connect ubuntu. Everything is OK until I try to open some GUI application. when I input a command in terminal, it output some message ...
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How can I reflect a virtual screen about the x-axis over a vnc connection?
TL;DR: How can I reflect a virtual screen about the x-axis over a vnc connection?
Before I start my explanation, I want to clearly differentiate between the terms
"mirror" and "reflect&...
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What's the best way to easily launch programs across multiple linux servers that can't be headless?
I'm trying to launch a program across many Ubuntu servers that can not be headless. I would need to relaunch these every few days so I'm looking for a way to easily do this. I installed a VNC Server ...
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VNC Server: cannot log in from desktop when logged from VNC user
I have setup VNC server on my laptop. When I log into the laptop via VNC, I cannot log into my laptop from the desktop GUI. The problem is if I close my VNC session and forget to log out from VNC, I ...
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vnc: `Error: cannot open display: :1` when I run commands when `sudo`
I am logged into a VNC session, and everything seems to work, except the following. While running commands that launch a GUI (like firefox or an installer I am trying run) they work. I need to run the ...
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How to kill and restart kwin and plasma-desktop from remote ssh session
I have a VNC machine running kde4 as the desktop environment,
I logged into the VNC machine and the desktop was just displaying a black screen.
To remedy this I ssh'd into the VNC host and ran pkill -...
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X11 multiseat configuration
I am trying to achieve a Windows-like multiseat effect on my Linux machine with Xorg. My goals are:
Each user has a single graphical session where they run their graphical applications.
They can ...
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X11/VNC mouse pointer jitter
I have the following setup:
From Windows, I connect to a VNC server initialized in a CentOS 7 machine under network A.
Inside this VNC session, I have a terminal from network B that had its display ...
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Error opening browser in VNC session: cannot open display: :1.0
Setup
My goal is to use a web browser in a VNC session.
I followed this page to install tightvncserver with xfce4. The session works fine, i.e. I am able to open all other GUI programs. I ran apt ...
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Forward VNC data from remote pc to server to avoid multiple connections into the remote pc
I have a remote pc under a 4G router and in the other hand a server with optical fiber. Both run on linux. What I want to achieve is to share the display of the remote pc but avoiding all my clients ...
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Is there a way to automatically resize a virtual machine display with VNC?
Every thread I can find asking about automatic screen resizing for a VM has a solution that involves using Spice. However, I'm using RHEL 9, which has disabled using Spice with virtual machines, with ...
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VNC (tigervnc) via 'actual' ssh tunnel
I understand that vnc which is not encrypted or secure usually is used via an ssh tunnel. I currently have the native Ubuntu 20.04 VNC server (vino-server) working via an ssh tunnel. The ssh tunnel is ...
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Virtual Display but with GPU/Hardware Acceleration
To do some automated screen recordings for promo videos of web applications I'm using chromium/selenium inside of xvfb to run the web application and ffmpeg to record the video. Even tough this looks ...
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How to run VNC as a System Service on 64-bit Arm?
I'm following this guide to setup VNC server in my Ubuntu arm64 machine (specifically, armbian 64-bit). There's one problem I found with it so far.
When I start the VNC server using vncserver :1 -...
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Cannot suppress notification when a client connects to my vino server VNC
I am using vino-server in Bodhi Linux, an Ubuntu derivative which, in my experience, for most purposes (but not all) works the same as Ubuntu.
When a client connects to my PC I get a notification.
I ...
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Start vino-server automatically at startup
I am using Bodhi Linux, and vino-server in it.
I can connect neatly from Win 10, following the same procedure I am used to do to connect to Ubuntu boxes.
Now I want vino-server to start automatically ...
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X11VNC - connection failed due to incorrect password even though password correct
Running Xubuntu 20.04 as VM on top of Ubuntu Server 20.04 with bridged interface. I am able to connect to the VM via SSH (also using Putty on Windows 10 machine that will access the VM).
Using ...
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Cant connect to my tigervnc server hosted on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Did some basic debugging.
VNC session is created
vncserver -list
TigerVNC server sessions:
X DISPLAY # RFB PORT # PROCESS ID
:1 5901 4479
Port 5901 is enabled in firewall
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How to install GUI on remote Linux server
I need to install GUI on a VPS Linux server. Service provider is Hetzner and Linux version is Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS I'm using MobaXterminal for X11 forwarding. And I'm using root credentials.
I have ...
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