{"id":351,"date":"2012-08-18T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2012-08-18T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:06:40","slug":"apc-xfce-desktop-using-vnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"APC – XFCE Desktop, using VNC.."},"content":{"rendered":"

As the currently-available source for the APC kernel does not include the necessary drivers for video output to a monitor (amongst other things..) but does include network drivers (Via Velocity..) it seemed logical that I could adopt the same approach to a graphical interface that I use for the Dreamplug (which is a real<\/em> ‘headless’ device!).<\/p>\n

So..\u00a0 having successfully installed Fedora ARM 13, I was then able to follow the steps I had used for the Dreamplug when I installed this version of Fedora on it, over a year ago..<\/p>\n

Using YUM, I installled tigervnc-server<\/strong>, and groupinstalled<\/em> the XFCE<\/strong> desktop, and also the appropriate xorg-x11 fonts..<\/p>\n

Then changed the ~\/.vnc\/xstartup config to just include<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/sh\nstartxfce4 &<\/pre>\n
Restarted vncserver on the APC, and then fired up a VNC viewer from my main Linux system – in my case, krdc<\/strong>..<\/p>\n
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XFCE Desktop on the APC, using VNC<\/p><\/div>\n
All we need now, is a newer version of the APC kernel, with all drivers available in source form!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the currently-available source for the APC kernel does not include the necessary drivers for video output to a monitor (amongst other things..) but does include network drivers (Via Velocity..) it seemed logical that I could adopt the same approach to a graphical interface that I use for the Dreamplug (which is a real ‘headless’ device!). So..\u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,10,11,16,20],"tags":[89,159,268,411,426],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apc","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-fedora","category-hacks","category-linux-arm","category-performance-2","tag-apc-2","tag-fedora-arm-13","tag-network-access","tag-vnc","tag-xfce-desktop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}