Installing tigervnc
sudo pacman -Ss tigervnc
Editing the environment file
~/.vnc/xstartup functions like .xinitrc and it’s sourced by vncserver when being started. At a minimum, users should start a DE from this file. As an example, to start lxde, you’ll modify the file to:
$nano ~/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/bash
exec lxde &>/dev/null
The file should be executable:
$ chmod +x ~/.vnc/xstartup
Adding vncserver options
$ nano ~/.vnc/config
desktop=sandbox
geometry=1920x1080
dpi=96
SecurityTypes=none
Starting and stopping vncserver via systemd
To control vncserver with systemd, first, create systemd unit file for the user
$ cat /etc/systemd/system/vncserver@:1.service
[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=pi
PAMName=login
PIDFile=/home/%u/.vnc/%H%i.pid
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver %i -geometry 1440x900 -alwaysshared -fg
ExecStop=/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
where :1 is the $DISPLAY environment variable. Replace pi with the desired username and 1440x900 with the resolution you want to set.
To start the service, run
$ sudo systemctl start vncserver@:1.service
On tigervnc client
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