On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 3:34 PM Neil Bothwick <n...@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
