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Thursday, March 4, 2021

Using Real VNC server on Elementary OS

To setup Real VNC sever on Elementary OS the corresponding .deb file must be downloaded from their website and installed.

Make a Real VNC account and activate the 'Home' subscription, which is free. This will give you over the cloud access to the server from a Real VNC client.

Run sudo vnclicensewiz. This command prompts window were you must log into your Real VNC account.

Running systemctl start vncserver-x11-serviced.service , will start the VNC server and will pop a window on which the vnc server can be configured. Such settings can be accesed if the previous command is used with sudo. There will also be a promt to set a password for access to the server.

Moreover, to make the server start on boot run sudo systemctl enable --now vncserver-x11-serviced in the terminal.