Remote Desktop Working on my Pi-3

For reasons I still don’t entirely understand, XRDP started working properly last night. So far it meets my needs (full screen sizes and ease of use) so I’ll likely be getting on with things and shelve the VNC issues.

I expect that there is a way to make VNC behave as 640×480 isn’t a very useful resolution. My next likely step would be to try tight VNC as the pre-installed VNC version (real?) seems to come fro a very commercially oriented site and I could readily believe that their shipping (free) version is intentionally crippled. This is further suggested as open source clients don’t seem to be compatible with the real VNC server (no compatible security contexts).

Looks like that is the case. The realvnc FAQ shows that adjustable screen sizes for headless systems are only available on their enterprise subscription version. I’ll have to find out how to disable their version and replace it with a real open source version sometime soon.

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