Start VNC server when booting..?

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karsti
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Start VNC server when booting..?

Post by karsti »

Hi,

I have 2 accounts on my PC. One account I use myself and I am always logged into it. Another account is for my son. He logs into it remotely using VNC (turbovnc to be exact).

For this to work I need to do this manually at the moment:
1. ssh myson@192.168.178.22 (and type in the password)
2. vncserver

My son connects via vncviewer 192.168.178.22:1 -Quality=60 -Password=supersecret

I think I cannot close the console otherwise it will shut down vncserver. When I restart my PC, I need to start vncserver again.

Remark: I don't think I can just start vncserver under my own account. It needs to run with my son's account if I am not mistaken.

My question is: can I somehow automate this and have vncserver running under my son's account when I boot into Linux Mint (or at least when I log into MY account)? Or do I always have to do this manually every time?
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Re: Start VNC server when booting..?

Post by karsti »

Interesting to note, my son only uses Blender on my machine. However the CPU goes crazy because "cinnamon" draws 10x the CPU compared to Blender.

Is this normal? Is it just displaying Cinnamon, but in reality it is the VNC process or Blender or something?

On a different note, what determines which desktop environment my son will use? He just connects via vncviewer and the desktop environment is already running. At the moment this seems to be Cinnamon. But he also ended up using XFCE on other occasions. He never picks the desktop environment himself. Something else does. Somebody has an idea? Is it just the last desktop environment that was selected during a "real" login?

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PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                   
26377 myson     20   0 4964732 232728 130312 S 247,2  0,7  43:18.36 cinnamon                                                  
26021 myson     20   0 1885068 193968 106364 S  29,4  0,6   4:57.63 Xvnc                                                      
30141 myson     20   0 1621628 325324 163692 S  23,8  1,0   4:09.22 blender                                                   
26247 myson     20   0 1776352  14620  12160 S   2,3  0,0   0:45.84 pulseaudio  
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