You should get a badge for such a long well though out question. 😉 In answer to your primary question, VNC uses the RFB protocol which is a remote frame buffer protocol (thus the acronym) not a streaming video protocol. The VNC client sends a FrameBufferUpdateRequest message to the server which contains a viewport region … Read more
Real VNC server 4.4 includes support for Xrandr, which allows resizing the VNC. Start the server with: vncserver -geometry 1600×1200 -randr 1600×1200,1440×900,1024×768 Then resize with: xrandr -s 1600×1200 xrandr -s 1440×900 xrandr -s 1024×768
This can be done. Following are the steps to setup the GUI Create new user with password login sudo useradd -m awsgui sudo passwd awsgui sudo usermod -aG admin awsgui sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config # edit line “PasswordAuthentication” to yes sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart Setting up ui based ubuntu machine on AWS. In security group open port … Read more
Apparently the majority of the buffer is little endian, but several bytes at its start are expected to be big endian numbers of 16 bit (short). This means, you have to write data in little endian as if it’ll be interpreted as big endian. In order to convert the data from big endian to little … Read more
You can simply install a vncserver along with Firefox 🙂 I pushed an image, vnc/firefox, here: docker pull creack/firefox-vnc The image has been made with this Dockerfile: # Firefox over VNC # # VERSION 0.1 # DOCKER-VERSION 0.2 FROM ubuntu:12.04 # Make sure the package repository is up to date RUN echo “deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise … Read more