TIGHTVNC: Remote Desktop Access To Raspberry Pi

Steps:

1. Log in to your Pi and install the Tight VNC Package: # sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

2. Next Run TightVNC Server which will prompt you to enter a Password and an optional View Only Password: $ tightvncserver Once that is done you can start a VNC server from the shell prompt. This example starts a session on VNC display zero (:1) with full HD resolution: $ vncserver :0 -geometry 1920x1080 -depth 24 (If fonts appear the wrong size, add '-dpi 96' to the end.)

3. Install autocutsel to use copy and paste:

$ sudo apt-get install autocutsel

$ autocutsel -fork

You can add autocutsel -fork command to the file .profile.

4. You could create a script to save start vncserver each reboot called vncboot into directory /etc/init.d:

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: tightvncserver

# Required-Start:

# Required-Stop:

# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop: 0 1 6

# Short-Description: start vnc server

# Description:

### END INIT INFO

case "$1" in

start)

    su pi -c 'vncserver :1 -geometry 1920x1080 -depth 24 > /dev/null 2>&1'

     echo "VNC Started"

    ;;

stop)

    pkill Xtightvnc

    echo "VNC Terminated"

    ;;

*)

    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/tightvnc {start|stop}"

    exit 1

    ;;

esac

5. Modify the file permissions so it can be executed:

# chmod 755 vncboot

6. Enable dependency based boot sequencing:

# update-rc.d /etc/init.d/vncboot defaults

If enabling dependency based boot sequencing was successful, it says: "update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing". But if it says: "update-rc.d: error: unable to read /etc/init.d//etc/init.d/vncboot", then try the following command: $ update-rc.d vncboot defaults

Reboot your Raspberry PI and you should find a vncserver already started.

7.- Install Tight VNC on your desktop.