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Looking for a tutorial to connect to my laptop remotely like using VNC from a desktop running VNC both on a private network

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Re: VNC

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https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... untu-18-04
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Re: VNC

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Yeah I cant figure out how to make that tutorial work I will assume it was written for expert users not for dummies

Got to the part nano ~/.vnc/xstartup

Pasted in the
#!/bin/bash
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
startxfce4 &

Then when I paste in the sudo chmod +x ~/.vnc/xstartup it looks like
#!/bin/bash
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
startxfce4 &sudo chmod +x ~/.vnc/xstartup

With a flashing cursor.

Other confusion is it keeps referencing "Xfce desktop." whatever that is.

Tried searching this site for other tutorials but keeping getting the 3 letter error, this site will not let you search for VNC or VPN or any other 3 letter words for some reason.

FYI Setting up and connecting to my Raspberry Pi using Linux Mint was really simple and error free, setting it up so I can VNC from one Linux Mint computer to another Linux Mint computer is a whole different story.

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Re: VNC

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Anyone ever figure out how to connect to a laptop running Linux Mint using VNC Viewer?
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Re: VNC

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Try nomachine instead.
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Re: VNC

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rustyp wrote: ⤴Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:11 pm Anyone ever figure out how to connect to a laptop running Linux Mint using VNC Viewer?
What do you mean?

I've never seen it fail... but you do need to set up an online account.
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Re: VNC

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opjose wrote: ⤴Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:11 am I've never seen it fail... but you do need to set up an online account.
You certainly do not. For a basic setup, see e.g. viewtopic.php?f=42&t=351208

[EDIT] Note; rereading, the question and comment seem likely about the product "VNC Viewer" from RealVNC rather than about "a VNC viewer"; my above linked tutorial is aboout VNC in the general sense.
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Re: VNC

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Thanks for correcting the erroneous response to my comment....

VNC Viewer does require an account... VNC itself does not.
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Re: VNC

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AndyMH wrote: ⤴Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:56 pm Try nomachine instead.
+1, fiddled around with VNC a couple months ago to connect a couple machines. After the 3rd non-working tutorial I just said F it. Decided to try out nomachine and it just worked as excpected(or in fact better than expected) with no fiddling at all required
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