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Banana Pi Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783552443
Pages 200 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ryad El-Dajani Ryad El-Dajani
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Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug.
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Banana Pi Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Installation and Setup Administration External Disks Networking Using the GPIO Pins Multimedia Index

Controlling the desktop remotely using VNC

The VNC (Virtual Network Computing) system is a great choice if you need to control your LXDE desktop remotely. In this recipe, we are discovering how to install a VNC server and connect to the Banana Pi using a VNC client.

Getting ready

The following ingredients are required to build a VNC server on the Banana Pi:

  • A running Banana Pi with a Debian-based Linux system

  • A configured network on the Banana Pi

How to do it…

We are going to install the VNC server onto our Banana Pi and access the Banana Pi remotely via a VNC client.

Installing the VNC server on the Banana Pi

Installing and running the VNC server is quite simple:

  1. Open a shell.

  2. Install the x11vnc package:

    $ sudo apt-get install x11vnc

  3. Apt will ask you to confirm the installation of the dependency packages.

  4. Enter Y to continue the installation.

    After a few seconds to minutes, the VNC server is installed.

  5. Run the VNC server:

    $ x11vnc -display :0

The VNC server will start and you can access it via a VNC...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Ryad El-Dajani
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Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug.
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