[OZAPRS] New Raspbian thread

Norm McMillan vk3xci at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 10:51:56 AEST 2016


Thanks Kim et al
Things have to take a rest while I deal with life, it gets in the way
sometimes. Oh well :)

norm
vk3xci



On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Kim VK5FJ <vk5fj at hawtin.net.au> wrote:

> Norm,
>
> On 03/07/16 09:15, Norm McMillan wrote:
>
>> OK,
>>
>> the Rpi runs, VK3WRM is up and running and now to stick it at the bottom
>> of the garden, so to speak.
>>
>> Alas, when I try to TightVNC to it, I can only get the :1 and not the :0
>> active window. I can understand why, but is there a fix?
>>
>> I want it to eventually be a headless system wombling along by itself
>> away from my shack, probably Solar powered and out of sight out of mind.
>>
>
> If you would like to run headless *and* have X Windows GUI applications
> continuously running, perhaps you can use XPRA;
>
> sudo apt-get update && apt-cache search xpra
>
> get in the habbit of updating from the remote repository, that way you
> won't end up trying to install old packages.
>
> Anyhow, XPRA effectively allows you to connect to an X windows server
> running in the background, that is not on the console. its a bit like using
> ssh to connect to a remote linux box and running all your CLI/terminal
> applications in screen or tmux. very handy.
>
> regards,
>
> Kim VK5FJ
>
>
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