On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 09:04:42PM +0100, Phil Thane wrote:
OK, I'm inviting trouble here but bear with me.
I run an old desktop PC, headless as a file/webserver. My wife's PC backs up to it and I mirror most of my desktop on it using Nextcloud. My only previous experience with web servers has been running Wordpress etc on hosted platforms whee all the setup stuff is done via Cpanel. No Cpanel on my DIY server though so to make life easier it runs a desktop distro (currently Lubuntu) and VNC. I can do any admin via KRDC from my desktop.
During set up all this works OK, but the Lubuntu desktop goes blank after a few minutes inactivity, KRDC connects fine but all I see is black screen. The only way I can find to get back in is to reboot (using SSH), restart VNC then re-connect KRDC before the blackout kicks in.
A while ago I did this and tried to find a setting to keep the screen alive for ever, as there's no actual screen attached it would make little difference to power consumption. I thought I'd found it, but obviously not as it still blanks. Anyone got any idea?
I'm not totally averse to CLI work, providing it's a simple command to solve a specific issue like this, but I really don't want to learn how to do everything I need to do on the server that way!
What programs do you run to administer the server?
You don't really need the whole desktop do you? If not then you can run GUI programs on your desktop using ssh and X, e.g.:-
chris$ ssh -X esprimo chris@esprimo$ sqliteman Checking for sqlite3 : 3.11.0 2016-02-15 17:29:24 3d862f207e3adc00f78066799ac5a8c282430a5f Checking for Qt version: 4.8.7 Initial DB: "" chris@esprimo$
This runs sqliteman on the *server* using your desktop for display, the same can be done with just about any GUI program.