Wednesday, July 10, 2013

x11vnc X11 Server


Although it looks like tightVNC is more popular, I installed x11vnc. As the first target is to play minecraft on pi with its monitor, it is meaningless and impossible to let the video output to the remote terminal. Instead, Pi need to connect HDTV monitor with direct signals from video chip. In order to make it possible, I felt x11vnc is necessary and installed as below,

sudo apt-get install x11vnc

and store x11vnc.desktop file in ~/.config/autostart after setting password

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=X11VNC
Comment=
Exec=x11vnc -forever -usepw -display :0 -ultrafilexfer
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false


Then type startx and could be controlled from vnc client on a remote terminal.


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