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Questions tagged [vncviewer]

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Add icons/menu items for applications in XFCE

I am running Debian (Stretch) with XFCE and many applications do not appear in the menu (in my case Whisker Menu). As an example, I often run remote sessions using VNC and at the moment I can only start the VNC viewer from the terminal. Ideally it…
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vncviewer is losing caps lock, which I want to remap anyways

I am on a linux system and using vncviewer to connect to other linux servers. On my home system, I use setxkbmap to remap caps to control, like any decent human being: setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl_modifier When I run vncviewer, I find that my caps…
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10-key (numeric keyboard) not working when connected via VNC to Fedora 35 or Ubuntu 21. Both are using GNOME - is this a bug?

I use VNC (RealVNC "VNC Viewer" app) on my Mac to connect to Linux desktops: Fedora 35 & Ubuntu 21. They both are using GNOME desktop: 41.1 for Fedora, and 40.5 for Ubuntu I recently discovered that the 10-key (numeric) part of my Mac keyboard no…
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Tigervnc displays a blank screen

0 I have configured tigervnc-server on a Fedora Workstation and when I connect to it via either VNC Viewer from macOS, or vncviewer from another Fedora workstation, all I get is a blank screen, and sometimes a mouse pointer that does not move. I…
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vncviewer error:could not connect to session bus :failed to connect to socket/tmp/dbus-XXXXXXXX connection refused

First, I use putty to log in my server computer with vnc4server -geometry 1920x1080. Then I got my port number is 1. The system on my server computer is ubuntu 16.04. Then I use vncviewer to log with 192.168.106.29:1 This is the result: This is my…
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How to run VNC as a System Service on 64-bit Arm?

I'm following this guide to setup VNC server in my Ubuntu arm64 machine (specifically, armbian 64-bit). There's one problem I found with it so far. When I start the VNC server using vncserver :1 -localhost no command, it didn't work and crashed…
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VNC / Ubuntu 18.04 / xfce4: can't launch executables with a GUI

I'm using VNC remote desktop to visually access a remote Ubuntu 18.04 machine with a xfce4 GUI. VNC works fine. SSH shell works fine. The 2 programs with a graphic UI I'd like to launch are nedit (a visual editor, compiled) and Unity (a game dev…
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Cannot connect to VNC using VNC viewer, KVM working (Ubuntu)

I brought a VPS today, loaded up xubuntu-desktop + tightvncviewer. set up everything, same as I did on a previous host (that worked fine). I can connect through the KVM on the new hosts website as well as I have disabled all firewalls for testing. I…
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How to find out if xtigervncviewer wasn't able to establish a connection?

If I use xtigervncviewer to try to connect to a host which doesn't run a VNC server, it prints the following expected error to stderr: $ xtigervncviewer -AlertOnFatalError=0 localhost TigerVNC Viewer 64-bit v1.9.0 Built on: 2020-01-23…
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can vncviewer forward alt key to server for application switch?

I'm using the tightvnc vncviewer to connect to a Windows10 server from my Linux machine running Ubuntu. Now I wish had the option to switch between aplications on the Windows machine using alt-tab over vnc. I've found a plethora of articles…
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VNC seems to break CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY

I'm using VNC Viewer 5.3.2 (r19179) x64 on a Windows 10 machine to connect to a VNC Server (Virtual Mode) 5.3.2 (r19476) x64 running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. My issue is concerning copy and paste. I'm aware that Linux have two different…
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How do I pass parameters from xrdp to the vnc viewer such as viewonly?

Goal: To use xrdp as a proxy to view VNC connections from another ip address, while passing parameters to the vncviewer. Everything works except passing the -viewonly switch to the vncserver that is running NOT on the xrdp host, but another pc…
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Can not connect to VNC session from local network

few days ago we updated Debian from old stable to stable (Linux 6.0.0-0.deb11.6-amd64). While updating, machine reboot had to be done, which ended some important processes, such as vncserver, which we used for connecting from local and also remote…
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RealVNC Viewer on Raspberry Boot

I have a main Raspberry Pi in one room and a second one in other room. My software is running on the main Pi and i'd like the second one to just mirror the first one. RealVNC is fine, but i can't figure out how to make the second Pi (the one with…
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Why I can not open some application through vnc view

my VNC server run in ubuntu, and I use VNC Viewer in windows to connect ubuntu. Everything is OK until I try to open some GUI application. when I input a command in terminal, it output some message but nothing happend later, the application just…
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