On 04 Oct 2020 at 11:47a, Avon pondered and said...
I'm wanting to be able to use VNC from my windows machine so I can
remote in to the Debian box and do admin stuff from within my home LAN.
I' not thinking this is something I want to be able to do from outside
the home.
There seem to be several web walk through articles for this some more detailed than others. I found this one https://tinyurl.com/yxt6ylmp and this other one https://tinyurl.com/yxfuwd2k which both want me to use
ssh and install xfce.
Well I followed step 1 and 2 of the second short url and ended up with a grey screen when I tried to connect. I then tried a solution on
https://tinyurl.com/y3rtpcrd and that sorta worked but seemed hit/miss when I tried to connect to the box VNC would work once then refuse to connect.
I then ran sudo apt purge xxx where xxx was the vnc and xface files.
I then ran nautilus and found some hidden .vnc stuff and removed that from my home dir then also removed a few .xfce files there too that were hidden.
I like the basic Gnome desktop that seems to come with debian but getting a remote (working) VNC session that is reliable is a nightmare for a n00b. At least with a raspberry pi they build in a VNC server into the OS... wish
Debian did the same.
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