Starting a program and viewing in VNC

[laserman]

When my Raspberry Pi starts, I have a line in /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi to autostart a program. Opening a terminal, typing top, I see the program running but when I access the pi via VNC, I am not able to see the program GUI. I can connect a monitor and see it there but not virtually.

How can I get it to where I can see the program from VNC?

laserman

[pi-anazazi]

VNC normally on Linux starts on a display other than the one you see on your monitor, e.g. you start your vncserver on :1 and you access it via 10.10.10.25:1.

If you want the same display as on the monitor, use display :0, but you need special setup for this (only on Windows :0 is default, no other displays possible, iirc).

[Martin Frezman]

The answer to your question is:

x11vnc

That's the version of VNC that "mirrors" the "real" display, rather than creating a new, "virtual", display.

BTW, I think the new, "RealVNC", version of VNC might also figure into this, but I have not had a chance to test it yet.

[fruitoftheloom]

The answer to your question is:

x11vnc

That's the version of VNC that "mirrors" the "real" display, rather than creating a new, "virtual", display.

BTW, I think the new, "RealVNC", version of VNC might also figure into this, but I have not had a chance to test it yet.

An updated Raspbian Jessie includes RealVNC which may be suitable:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-pixel

[laserman]

Appreciate the replies. I will check into the new RealVNC.

laserman