On Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:02:31 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

> Kiwi User  wrote:
>> On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:00:31 -0600, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>
>> >> I have managed to do this using my Ubuntu machine as client and it
>> >> works fine except for the screen resolution.
>> >>
>> Curiosity: why use VNC when you can use SSH? The RPi default
>> installation starts sshd and IIRC "X11Forwarding yes" is set by default
>> - more or less has to be otherwise you couldn't run GUI programs on the
>> RPi.
>>
>> IME the screen colour palette is usually better with a forwarded X11
>> connection than it is with VNC.
>>
> That's exactly what I have always done, probably because I started doing
> this sort of thing before VNC existed! :-)
>
> However I agree about display etc., it always seems a bit clunky when
> using VNC.  Horses for courses though, if you want to run a number of
> GUI programs remotely then VNC probably makes sense.  I tend to simply
> run a couple of ssh connections to command line on the Pi and maybe just
> one or two GUI programs as needed.

I seem to have started quite a fruitful conversation.

Just to add to the mix, I notice that the Minecraft program just produces
a black screen on my Ubuntu client running VNC.

What makes this different?

Jack

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