On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:49:08 -0400 Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 08:57:36AM +0200, Julius Hamilton wrote: > > There are many VNC servers that can be installed from apt, but you also > > need a desktop environment, which can be installed from tasksel. > > > > I see in tasksel that I already have Debian Desktop Environment and GNOME > > installed. > > > > I am pretty sure my VNC server is running and fine as it is except a DE is > > not running so that’s why I can’t connect. > > > > Is it enough to launch the DE, open a new screen with Screen, then launch > > the VNC? > > There are two kinds of VNC servers. > > The first kind runs a VNC session which is totally independent of what's > running on the physical display (if anything). > > The second kind runs inside an existing X11 session, and replicates that > X11 session as a VNC session. I only know of *one* VNC server which does > this, and its name is "x11vnc". IIUC, TigerVNC can do this as well: https://packages.debian.org/sid/tigervnc-xorg-extension Getting it to work properly, though, may not be trivial. -- Celejar
