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Remote desktop on my Raspberry Pi

Since I don't have a screen, a hdmi-cable, and no TV, I've used to just access my Pi from an ssh shell in my terminal. I don't have any practical use of accessing my raspberry visually when all functionality I need can be used through the terminal. When I first started my Pi, I disabled the X-system so it should not use unnecessary resources.

I did it anyway, just for fun. Here's how:

First I installed a vnc-server on the raspberry pi according to this tutorial (on my Raspberry Pi).

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

Then to run the server I simply ran

vncserver :1 -geometry 640x480 -depth 24

That was not according to the video, but it worked anyway. It started an x-server on :1 with the given dimensions and a color depth of 24 bits. Now with the server up and running, all I had to do was to connect to it from my laptop.

To get the ip-address from my Pi I used ifconfig.

ifconfig

According to this link, the standard vnc-server for Ubuntu (that I use) is vinagre. So I installed it (on my desktop computer):

sudo apt-get install vinagre

And then start it. Configurations were quite self-explanatory. Here's how it looks

And tataaaa! A running vnc-client on my desktop.

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