I have mentioned in one of my other post I want to use Librem 5 in headless mode while it is getting charged towards end of day when at home. This would be a similar setup as the Raspberry Pi.
While I am waiting for my Librem 5 delivery, I tried to make the VNC work on the VirtualBox with latest Librem 5 (of course x86_64) image.
Here is what I got so far;
- I installed LXDE on Librem 5 as I could not get GNOME work with VNC. With GNOME, I get a black screen no actual desktop. With lxde,
exec startlxde
in the xstartup script the LXDE desktop shows up - RealVNC does not work out-of-box as it works with Raspberry Pi. Not sure on changes to be made.
- TigerVNC and TightVNC work well after tweaking the xstartup script to use LXDE.
Issue
The remote desktop that comes up in tigervncviewer (both for tigervnc and tightvnc) the LXDE desktop shows up fine. But when I launch any application it opens it in the original virtualbox window rather than on the VNCViewer window.
Using x0vncserver (from tigerVNC) does show up the Librem 5 desktop but it is not the full-screen desktop mode. It is the Librem 5 screen with Librem 5 resolution.
@dos, can you provide suggestions on setting changes on Librem 5 so the desktop opened in the VNCViewer is full-blown desktop and application open in it?