This just started happening after a recent reboot of my 16.04 box. It had been run running for about a month with reboots and everything with no problem. I could use a windows box and VNC in and all was well.

I hadn't rebooted for about a month until this morning with no changes other than apt-get upgrades. Now I when I connect it is very slow over VNC.

If I reboot while a monitor is plugged in, all is well.

None the less, I would like remote desktop to work when booted without a monitor attached (working meaning not painfully slow).

I'm not sure why it stopped working as I never had monitor on it after initial setup and has been just fine. But one of those apt-get upgrades seem to have changed something.

Thoughts?

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Just so folks know it looks like it had something to do with my AMD GPU. The driver or something must have been updated or something and took effect during the reboot. I have sense taken the card out with no GPU and is fine now.

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I am too observing this issue with Ubutnu 16.04.

The workarounds (not solutions), I added dummy display to access same without issue. One may find the steps here: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2296872

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