During the first impressions of said distro, what feature surprised you the most?

  • venusenvy47
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    6 days ago

    I was surprised, in a bad way, at how difficult it is to get any VNC running. I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and base Debian, but couldn’t get any VNC working. The closest I got was with Debian, but it gave me a different desktop than what was coming out the video port to my monitor. I’d be interested in hearing if anyone has had better luck with anything.

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      6 days ago

      x11vnc works a dream once you have a systemd service running it on boot, but that rules Wayland out.
      You may be able to get similar results by explicitly instructing the others to share display :0, otherwise they default to starting new sessions.

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        6 days ago

        I can’t remember if I have Wayland on my Debian installation with XFCE. I installed it several months ago, so I will check.

      • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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        6 days ago

        X11vnc works like a dream on X11, couldnt agree more.

        There is wayvnc for Wayland supposedly to solve the same problem, but I havent tried it myself yet

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          I’ve taken a couple of pokes at it with no results. I’ll just have to sit down with it some day and figure it out.