Teaching how to setup your Raspberry Pi 3

Installing VNC Server on your Raspberry Pi 3

Source: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/vnc/

• Install the TightVNC Package

sudo apt–get install tightvncserver

• Next, run TightVNC Server which will prompt you to enter a password and an optional view-only password:

tightvncserver

• Start a VNC server from the terminal: This example starts a session on VNC display two (:2) with full HD resolution (1920×1080) if you want or something smaller based on your current resolution:

vncserver :2 -geometry 1024×768 -depth 24

In order to run this everytime at startup follow any of the options here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/228304/how-do-i-run-a-script-at-start-up

My favourite is to (as root):

vi /etc/rc.local

with content like the following.

# Lots and lots of stuff already here…

vncserver :2 -geometry 1024×768 -depth 24 || exit 1 # Added by me

exit 0

• Note that since by default an X session is started on display zero and one, you might get an error in case you use :0 or :1. If so, use 2 or 3, etc. Just remember the port you used.

• Since there are now two X sessions running, which would normally be a waste of resources, it is suggested to stop the displaymanager running on :0 and :1 using

Note: Don’t run this in a Linux environment on a physical hardware or you will kill your startx process (unless you want that). Do it only if this is a guest VM running somewhere.

sudo service lightdm stop

• Now, on your computer, install and run the VNC client. If using Windows just get VNC Viewer.

• Enter the password that you entered previously

• Congrats!

• If you want to also install VNC Viewer on a Linux machine (in case you don’t have one already) install the package xtightvncviewer:

sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer

Otherwise, TightVNC is downloadable from tightvnc.com

For some well-known issues:

https://www.pi-supply.com/make/fix-raspberry-pi-3-bluetooth-issues/

Author: Carlos Rodriguez Iturria

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