linuxfan Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I use a currently fully updated Armbian on an ODROID-C2. I start tigervnc like this in /etc/crontab: @reboot linuxfan bash -lc 'vncserver -local host no' My ~/.vnc/xstartup: #!/bin/bash exec startxfce4 Everything works over VNC but gparted. Nothing would happen when I click on the menu entry. When I try to start it from an Xfce terminal, it (somehow) tells my why it won't start: $ sudo gparted No protocol specified (gpartedbin:23385): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:55:09.777: cannot open display: :1.0 I'm at my wits end and would be glad if someone can help me out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_r9 Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Maybe you ought to try http://xrdp.org/ A tutorial: https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-xrdp-on-debian-10/ VNC isn't secure. A way to secure VNC would be to tunnel the connection through SSH and such configuration is much more frustrating. XRDP on the other hand runs very smoothly on most machines, you shouldn't run into issues when you have no Display jacked in and you're able to secure the connection with SSL/TLS I'm not that experienced with XRDP or VNC but my headaches are decreasing since using XRDP ^^ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxfan Posted January 13, 2021 Author Share Posted January 13, 2021 I remember I have ran gparted without issues on other Linux distros over VNC. It never complained like this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_r9 Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Same here. I had very good times with VNC too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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