Okay. I’m lazy. But sometimes I don’t want to sit at the desk piddling with the computer. It’s not a very comfortable desk set up anyway. Really I want to sit on the couch with a movie going while I try whatever concocted idea I have.
So I have been trying to get remote login / screen sharing going for awhile. I’ve tried xrdp because I was used to remote desktop… Which at least did what I wanted. But that’s a pain. Seems like Linux wants to use VNC which is a different protocol. Okay. So be it.
I tried tiger VNC server. Just doesn’t do what I’m expecting. I reliably can get another user logged in but I can’t look over at the screen and see the results… It’s all done in a different session that what is on my console display. Anywho. I finally had enough today and decided to fix it. I found a great guide here:
https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc
I’ve got one more kink to figure out. Right now after a reboot someone will have to start the server in a terminal so I think I need a bash script that runs on login… Maybe tomorrow. I’m on the couch again and too lazy to work on it.