Looking to reinstall some sort of VNC on an old Lenovo Thinkpad (where the built-in keyboard has issues with some crucial keys like <space> and <enter>) - found this useful thread about installing Tiger VNC scraping server, for making screen 0 available - so that works well with cinnamon desktop, unlike other VNC solutions -
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=351208
sudo apt-get install tigervnc-scraping-server
We need to use the -localhost no option also, if not tunnelling over SSH, as mentioned in the last part of that thread. So, the way I've implemented is to create a startvnc.sh with the following command,
x0vncserver -PasswordFile=/home/user/.vnc/passwd -localhost no
where the pw file was created by running
vncpasswd
Then, in Linux Mint, there is the "Startup Applications" Menu item, where we can add this script startvnc.sh with an appropriate delay if required - I've put in a 5 second delay.
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