Check whether you have the necessary program 'vncviewer' needed for the command installed. I see I have it installed on a (now mothballed) Ubuntu distribution, but not on any of my Debian installations. (And the Ubuntu installation would have put it in automatically, since I'm sure I didn't make any conscious decision to include it).
Ted.
On 12-Sep-2012 17:41:05 John Woodard wrote:
No gnome as it's Debian Wheezy running LXDE on a Rasberry PI so really looking for the best place to insert the command. I tried /etc/rc.local but it doesn't seem to want to play ball. I think I'm missing something fundamental here. I'm open to ridicule for this schoolboy question but just want the damn thing to work.
Cheers, BJ
On 12 September 2012 12:29, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On Ubuntu, possibly on other Gnome (2) distros, there's a Remote Desktop setting (in System/Preferences). This will run a VNC server once logged in. I used to run VNC as a server before log-in but after a while I couldn't get it to work any more - I can't remember why.
Remote Desktop should work out of the box if you just enable it with no jobs or scripts and should be OK if you just want it to run after log-in.
HTH. Steve
On 12/09/12 11:18, John Woodard wrote:
I want to run a vnc server on startup as a user rather than root and seek opinion to where the best place to put the command
tightvncserver :1 -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 16 -pixelformat rgb565
etc/rc.local cron job?
Not sure here really if it needs to be before login so thought it prudent to run as a user.
Cheers, BJ
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