{"id":2824,"date":"2017-02-16T12:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2017-02-16T12:24:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:24:59","slug":"set-up-vnc-on-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2824","title":{"rendered":"Set up VNC on Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up VNC on Ubuntu used to be pretty painless. But recent changes in Ubuntu and X have left it kind of a mess. It took me way longer to set up VNC than it should have, and finding the documentation wasn&#8217;t super-easy either. There were lots of broken guides. So, here&#8217;s what you need to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow these setup instructions first:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtoforge.com\/how-to-install-vnc-server-on-ubuntu-14.04\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.howtoforge.com\/how-to-install-vnc-server-on-ubuntu-14.04<\/a><\/li>\n<li>When completed, however, a known issue means the screen will come up blue-grey and have few desktop controls if you try to connect to it. This is because (near as I can tell) the X manager currently used for Ubuntu doesn&#8217;t work over VNC anymore. You need to set VNC up to use an older desktop manager that<\/li>\n<li>To fix that problem, you need to fix things according to this guide:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onkea.com\/ubuntu-vnc-grey-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/onkea.com\/ubuntu-vnc-grey-screen\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>On your client, start the vncserver and connect to it by matching the final digit of the port number to the :X number you used to create it.\n<ul>\n<li>Example:<br \/>\nhost: vncserver :4 &#8211;geometry 800&#215;600 (to create the server)<br \/>\nclient should use the ip: 10.23.47.150:5904<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>If you get an error starting the vncserver, increment the :2 to :3 or :4 and so forth until you find one not in use by some other user on the server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"command\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up VNC on Ubuntu used to be pretty painless. But recent changes in Ubuntu and X have left it kind of a mess. It took me way longer to set up VNC than it should have, and finding the documentation wasn&#8217;t super-easy either. There were lots of broken guides. So, here&#8217;s what you need to do: Follow these setup instructions first: https:\/\/www.howtoforge.com\/how-to-install-vnc-server-on-ubuntu-14.04 When completed, however, a known issue means the screen will come up blue-grey and have few desktop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2824\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Set up VNC on Ubuntu 14.04","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technicalproblemsolutions","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-Jy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}