VNC server with local keyboard and mouse

[skalman]

I'm up and running with VNC on my ipad and it works fine BUT:

Is there a way to use the ipad only as a "screen" via VNC with the mouse pointer and text entry "driven" by the keyborad and mouse connected directly to the raspberry ?

When i'm programming it drives me mad to use the ipad bluetooth keyboard for {} et al and using the mouse via the touch screen is ridiculous.

Thanks for any advice
Skalman

[SirLagz]

Yes...VNC doesn't restrict input to the remote keyboard and mouse unless it is directed to. So you should still be able to use the local keyboard and mouse.

[Joe Schmoe]

Yes...VNC doesn't restrict input to the remote keyboard and mouse unless it is directed to. So you should still be able to use the local keyboard and mouse.

But there is an interesting quirk here. There's several threads at the moment about this - about using x11vnc (not "tight" anything) to be able to see and interact with the "main" X desktop.

But, presumably, the goal here is to be able to boot up without the main HDMI screen connected (and the main keyboard/mouse). But if you do that, I believe the Pi will notice that there is no HDMI screen connected and will not activate it - falling back, I believe, to the RCA output. So, then, when you access it via vnc (from another computer or device), you might be stuck with a low resolution. Or nothing at all. I'm not sure...

[SirLagz]

By default, it would be set to the lower resolution.
I'm sure you could still change that on the fly though...however I have not tried this so I can't comment on whether it will work or not lol.

[cleverca22]

linux has 2 main types of vnc server, the one from the 'vncserver' script spawns an entirely isolated screen, no local inputs
what you want, is x0vncserver, which will re-use an existing X server (with its current inputs)

and for resolution, you can edit config.txt to force hdmi mode, and force a certain resolution, so things will fit right on the tablet