I was able to start up x11vnc by disabling Wayland in the /etc/gdm3/custom.conf file and rebooting as per this post: https://askubuntu.com/questions/981313/x11vnc-on-ubuntu-17-10-not- running-on-startup. I'm not sure what I lose by changing the DM, but for now it seems to be OK.
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