Questions tagged [vnc]
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that can be used to control a computer remotely.
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VNC Session: How to whitelist IPs for running session?
I have a TigerVNC 1.8.0-1 session running on my Linux machine for over 2 years. I've created several tabs and windows running all over the desktop. Needless to say, I do not wish to terminate this ...
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Can't open Firefox on VNC/Ubuntu/xfce without running some commands
I'm running a VNC Server on a VPS. I'm trying to automate some workflows, as I'd essentially need to (I don't even know if it is possible yet, but I'm doing a step by step) check if my VNC server is ...
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Using VNC to connect to the Oracle Linux server without DE
On my VM I have installed Oracle Linux 9.6 without any desktop environment, so everything I have there is accessible through CLI. I would like to run Oracle Database GUI installer on that server by ...
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Remote control of GRUB?
Is there any way to remote control GRUB? I am interested in not having to walk to the machine when it reboots. As such, I am only interested in non-virtualized solutions. In particular, I want remote ...
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Linux group membership problem for VNC session
In an almalinux9.5 machine, I am sudo user. I am using a vnc session to access the machine. I've added myself from this vnc machine to linux groups using : sudo usermod -aG <group-name> <user-...
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TigerVNC configuration on Fedora Linux
On Windows, I can configure the VNC server module, so that when a user is logged in on Windows, I can connect and see the same screen that user sees. On Linux, it appears that the serverr always ...
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Supporting VNC on wayland (debian trixie)
I'm planning to migrate to Debian 13. I currently use a touchscreen device on Gnome on Xorg (not wayland) because I rely on VNC (specifically x11vnc) to monitor remote desktop sessions. Unfortunately ...
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using ssh to forward local ports to the outside world
I have read the other issues/answers that seem similar to this, but I do not see a match. I have a VNC server running on a unix system. It is listening on 127.0.0.1. I need to be able to connect to ...
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Is it possible to remote control/screen share a specific virtual tty on KDE Plasma Wayland?
I am on KDE Plasma, Kwin (Wayland), Arch based distro (Endeavour). I use tty1, and want my friend to login to e.g. tty2, start up plasmashell, and then remote-in/stream specifically tty2 to e.g their ...
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How can I run Firefox on a non-local virtual server?
I need to run Firefox (or some other web browser, but I prefer Firefox) on a non-local (i.e. not on my PC, not reachable via LAN) Unix virtual machine and then control it using keyboard and mouse, ...
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setting DISPLAY environment variable in RHEL 8 vnc switch user
in a work environment we use VNC for remote connection to RHEL-8.10 installed on a server; NICE-DCV to be specific. For anyone's VNC session, for which everything is working with zero problems, if you ...
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noVNC takes long time to connect to x11vnc on docker
I have x11vnc running inside a docker container with alpine as base image. (5900 is exposed and mapped to hosts 5900) I use Xvfb as well. I run x11vnc inside the container using this command x11vnc -...
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systemd service turns inactive after exit - vnc service
Systemd does not start my service automatically. As soon as the process is stopped, the service also stops. I noticed that the PID is not the same as the one displayed under systemctl status. Is this ...
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TigerVNC on Debian 12
I'm trying to use TigerVNC to remote to a small thinkcenter running Debian 12 on my local network. I ran sudo apt install tigervnc-standalone-server tigervnc-xorg-extension tigervnc-viewer vncpasswd I ...
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How to configure key press repeat delay?
I have less-than-perfect connection to a Centos & machine via VNC. One problem is a slow echo; a worse one is a keypress repeat. When I type, say, cat, at normal speed, a couple seconds later I ...
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