Upgraded to 20.04 and now my VNC connection no longer works...

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:17:55 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>How can I fix this?
>
>NOTICE:
>The Ubuntu machine is sitting on the Mate login screen, there is no user session
>running and this is because I want VNC to create a virtual screen which I can
>set the size of independent of the LCD screen of the laptop itself.
>

It turns out that there is a config file for TigerVNC that needs to be edited:
/etc/vnc.conf

This line must be enabled in that file:

$localhost = "no";

Additionally in order to get the normal desktop once I log in I had to restore
the $HOME/.vnc/xstartup file from backup. Otherwise the connection just shows a
bare gray screen...

Now I just have to fix it such that the TigerVNC server starts on system boot
rather than having to be manually started....


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden