Questions tagged [tightvncserver]
TightVNC is a free remote control software package.
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tightvnc displays a gray screen on ubuntu 18.04 and gnome3
I've been struggling with the gray screen problem of tightvncserver on ubuntu 18.04 and gnome
The problem is the same with both aws ec2 as well as my local
machine.
I've verified that xfcestartup4 ...
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How to configure TightVNC server to get full Gnome desktop?
I am running tightvnc on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-1031-aws x86_64):
$ vncserver :0 -geometry 1980x1080
New 'X' desktop is ip-172-31-14-62:0
Starting applications specified in /home/hc/....
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vnc service for ubuntu 18.04, no background and menus
There are many topics about accessing a remote desktop via vnc. However, it seems that 18.04 is different. I have installed tightvncserver and the content of ~/.vnc/xstartup according to this topic is
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VNC server, how to show upper right panel?
I installed TightVNC Server version 1.3.10 in ubuntu 16.04. The configuration in xstartup file is as following.
#!/bin/bash
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
gnome-panel &
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What is wrong with my attempted setting up of TightVNC as a service?
I have TightVNC installed and working on my Ubuntu 18.4 virtual server, following this guide.
It says to use nano and create a 'unit' file called /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]. It then ...
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google-chrome fails to display when launched under xfce on headless server
I am having a problem launching Google Chrome 68.0.3440.106 on Ubuntu 18.04, running on a headless server via a TightVNC remote connection and xfce.
The odd part is that everything ran great until I ...
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How to run OBS studio on Ubuntu server 16.04
I have installed obs-studio on my Ubuntu server 16.04 but when I try to open it gives me this
error: failed to initialize video. your GPU may not be supported or
your graphics drivers need to be ...
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How to fix a constantly-crashing/freezing/disconnecting VNC server?
I am running tightvnc server on my Ubuntu machine, which I connect to from my Macbook, which then runs an XFCE virtual desktop (i.e. not the main Ubuntu desktop that shows up on the monitor connected ...
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xubuntu desktop breaks on tightvncserver
I have a desktop PC I want to remote desktop to, I also like the concept of virtual displays, so no one can see what I'm doing as I do it unless they connect to the display (as opposed to the standard ...
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Gnome VNC session not displaying correctly -- defaults to gnome-classic
I'm trying to set up a VNC server in Ubuntu 22.04 using tightvnc. I pretty much have it working, except the gnome session is not displaying correctly. It looks like this:
which is sort of like gnome ...
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Unable to interact with ubuntu 20.04 using xrdp
I am not able to interact with the remote desktop in any way.
Here is what I see:
Remote Desktop window
Even when I hover over the "activities" it does not highlight which leads me to ...
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When using Windows remote desktop, I am unable to see the same interface (Linux PC)
Here is the original interface I see in the Linux PC:
And here is the interface I see when accessing the Linux PC through remote desktop:
I'm having difficulty to get the same interface when ...
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UI For My Ubuntu Machine
I'm running an Ubuntu server with Digital Ocean. I want full UI access, like a personal computer, however this is hard. I have a VNC server running. When I connect, the only way I can open windows, is ...
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Can't unlock gnome desktop on ubuntu 20.04 via VNC, but it gets unlocked when I unlock the screen on console screen
A strange thing is happening.
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 and usually I use VNC from my Windows 20 machine to access the Ubuntu machine.
When the screen is locked on the VNC, when I entered the password, ...
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VNC Server does not display application GUI
I run a VNC Server on an ubuntu 18.04 linux desktop, and connect it using my Windows 10 PC, It was working just fine until I rebooted my server, now none of the applications open GUI, Clicking on &...
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Grey background of VNC in 18.04
I see some discussions about grey screen when connecting to a GNOME desktop via VNCVIEWER. For example, here.
The solution there is not fully compatible with 18.04 as neither the desktop is shown nor ...
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Configuring VNC session for admin rights on ubuntu
I configured VNC on Ubuntu headless, using this tutorial.
I don't have any administrative access to set up anything and I need to know what I need to do to raise the level permission on the file ...
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tightVNC often crashes when pressing Alt-Tab (on ubunt 16.04, Xfce4)
I recently received a new ubuntu 16.04 machine.
I installed tightVNC server and acccessing it using RealVNC from my windows 10 machine. For window manger, I'm using Xfce4. But when I press alt-tab (...
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How to fix GDBus and xlib error when accessing Ubuntu 16.10 GNOME environment via TightVNC
I'd like to access my Ubuntu 16.10 VPS with using a GNOME environment with VNC, however I am still facing some issues that I couldn't solve so far. To install and configure the software I ran the ...
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How to diagnose a vnc-crashing problem?
Tightvnc server keeps crashing on my dedicated Ubuntu server. The Ubuntu Unity main desktop is unaffected, but the tightvnc server crashes and takes down any program that was running in its (xfce) ...
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CRON @reboot vncserver?
Is there any reason per-user cronjobs running vncserver @reboot wouldn't run?
When I reboot the machine and look into /var/log/syslog, I see the jobs being run, then cron saying (CRON) info (No MTA ...
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Authentication window doesn't come up on the remote screen
I currently have Xrdp and TightVNC server installed on my ubuntu machine, but when I access it over remote desktop, the authentication window doesn't come up on the remote screen. It was coming up on ...
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Tightvnc server : xstartup system wide
In our company, we are using VNC4Server and TightVNCserver.
VNC4server - support end up to ubuntu 18.04
TightVNCserver - ubuntu 20.04
VNC4server - we set the xstartup script in /usr/bin/vncserver as ...
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vncserver becomes unresponsive to keyboard and mouse after a few minutes, but the screen still updates
Everything used to work fine on 18.04 LTS. I upgraded a while ago and started having problems with vnc. The display will continue to update as the screen contents change, but my mouse and keyboard ...
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How to disable screensaver in TightVNC server and how to check the status whether screensaver is enabled or disabled
How to disable screensaver in TightVNC server and how to check the status whether screensaver is enabled or disabled?
I have tried with the method mention in one article but it did not worked.
To ...
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How to install and setup VNC on a fresh Install of Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS?
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I've installed TigerVNC server and have attempted to remote connect using various VNC viewers, all resulting the same - black screen.
As of now I'm ...
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TigerVNC Server Installed - Black screen
So I just followed this source for instructions on how to setup a VNC Server (TigerVNC):
https://tecadmin.net/install-vnc-server-on-ubuntu-20-04/
About halfway through, right before Step 3 I was able ...
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Too many authentication failures VNC server and many connection with different ip
I wanted to connect to this and get me this error Too many authentication failures VNC server.
i user pgrep vnc and kill all process id , and run vncserver but i received the same error,
Inside the ...
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Unable to connect to remote server with vnc viewer
(Tight)VNC server at the remote desktop is set up well. This I could verify by connecting to it from my PC (Ubuntu 18.04). But when I try to login to the server from my laptop (Ubuntu 16:04) using ...
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Gray screen on VNC
I installed ubuntu-server on an old computer of mine to use it as a home media server (smb), but now I want to remotely use it from my MacBook. I prefer terminal, but sometimes I need to open a ...
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Change the VNC Server Port on Ubuntu
Currently VNC Server is running on port 5901.
I want to change the port to be around 10000-10100 (in this range).
How can I do that?
I have already tried the suggestions from How can I change the ...
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E: Unable to locate package xmkmf
I wanted to re-install tightvnc server from 1.3.9 to 1.3.10 because whenever I log in to the box, vnc crashes after 30+ mins. In my
google expedition I came across these set of commands
pushd ~
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How to enable the RENDER X extension on a minimal Ubuntu install with Lubuntu desktop?
I installed a headless Ubuntu server (16.04 LTS) in a VM at a hoster. Later I wanted to run Mathematica on it (V11.2), this made it necessary to install a GUI.
Which I did with the command sudo apt-...
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VNC Showing Grey Screen
The screen is showing this strange grey/black image when I use VNC. None of my files can be accessed and I can't do anything. It is Ubuntu 16.04. Please any suggestions are needed.
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Remote Desktop - xfce4 works but gnome & ubuntu do not
~/.vnc/xstartup
Using xfce4 works:
if which startxfce4 > /dev/null; then
exec startxfce4
fi
Using gnome / ubuntu does not work:
if [ -r "$HOME/.Xresources" ]
then
xrdb "$HOME/....
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How do I install VNC server in a Cubic enviroment?
Everytime I install a VNC Server in Cubic it gives me an error
root@cubic:/usr/share/backgrounds# vncserver
^C
=================== tail /root/.vnc/cubic:5901.log ===================
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vncserver mouse and keyboard not working
Installed vncserver on ubuntu server. When running vnc from root (ssh) everything works fine. When I use a different username (user), the keyboard and mouse do not work (the desktop loads properly). ...
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Can't connect to TightVNC server after latest Lunbuntu 20.04 update
My TightVNC server seems to have been broken by the latest Lubuntu 20.04 update, which I applied this week. When I try to connect a client I get: "Failed to connect"
Any ideas for how to ...
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Configuring VNC - Grey screen
I'm trying to login to an Ubuntu (20.04.6) PC from Windows 11 using VNC. When I connect, I get a grey screen and can't do anything on the PC. I'm using the GNOME desktop (v3.36.8).
I'm not sure what ...
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Start TightVncServer and provide password in a single command line
I am trying to add and start TightVncServer to a docker image.
When I want to start the service, sudo tightvncserver, I got prompted by a password.
Since I am generating an image, this needs to be ...
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Vncserver ignoes all config files | Tigervncserver
I'm using TigerVnc Server running on a Ubuntu22 (running in a lxc container).
Everything works perfect, except the fact that the vncserver ignores all config files!
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xvnc TigerVNC 1.12....
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Could anyone help me fix this issue with TightVNC?
I installed TightVNC and it worked fine for the first 2 days. However, when I restarted it, it gave me these errors in the log files:
19/04/22 17:16:32 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.10
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How to configure VNC server to give the standard Ubuntu desktop
There are several VNC server tutorials that I could find, but they all show only how to provide a bare-bones xfce desktop.
What is the configuration to provide the identical, normal Ubuntu desktop?
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Connecting to Lubuntu desktop via vnc
I have installed Lubuntu desktop on a Ubuntu 20.03 LTS server. The desktop works fine when I log on to it locally. I can see the SDDM and I can chose between various sessions for the desktop (Lubuntu, ...
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The program started using TightVNC is displayed on the other desktop GUI environment
I have TightVNC installed on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04. I found that if I logged into Ubuntu Desktop (GUI environment), when I open “File Manager” application through VNC, the File Manager will open at the ...
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Unable to identify the installed vnc server type
On my Ubuntu 20.04 lts pc, when I run /home/ziomario# vncviewer 127.0.0.1:0, I see the following
Basically it appears the TightVNC client that asks for a password,but I don't know what is this. But ...
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Remote desktop in online ubuntu host
I have free host at some sites like codeanywhere or codeenvy.
So like to know can i have access to this ubuntu servers by graphic version.
I have tried to install tightvncserver in codeanywhere and ...
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Bets way to remotely connect to Ubuntu 18.04
I have been trying all day to connect to Ubuntu 18.04 suing VNC.
I have seen quite a few approaches where vino is started up using Startup Applications however I want the vncserver to startup on boot ...
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Mystery: can't login for long time, then normally working
I have 2 computers:
an Orange Pi Zero running Ubuntu, with tightvncserver
a Windows 7 PC
When I use putty, or FileZilla, or tightVNCClient from Windows to connect to Opi Ubuntu, it can't. It says "...
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in ubuntu18.04 in a docker container can vncserver take the password and reply to "view"only on command line
this for a non-interactive automated startup from the docker file ENTRYPOINT
something like vncserver --password 'aPassWord' or by setting environment variables or preloading a config file etc.
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