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Virtual Network Computing - platform-independent remote display system

About the product

Virtual Network Computing is a platform-independent remote display system. By installing this on your computer, you are creating a VNC Server, which you can then connect to via the VNC Viewer which will allow you remote control access to the desktop environment, as if you were sitting at the keyboard of the computer that is running the VNC Server.

Tag usage

Typical installation consists of both the VNC Server and VNC Viewer. This tag can be used for questions that related to either of these components. If your question is limited to using only one of those components, please use the more specific tag or

If your question is specifically for one a VNC-related product, such as "RealVNC" or "TightVNC", please use the more specific tag, instead.

You can also use this tag for general questions about the VNC protocol, configuration, questions related to connection troubleshooting, and questions about usage.

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What's the difference between RDP vs VNC?

What's really the difference between the RDP and VNC? They both provide the same function and features?
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How can I make VNC faster?

I need to remotely access and use my work computer a few times a week. I'm currently using UltraVNC. I want to use VNC because of the price. I've used VNC before, mostly on my own network, where it's fast. However, VNC over the internet is…
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Why is VNC on Windows so slow?

In a test, I could stream a full HD movie across our network from my friend's computer, no problem. It's as fast as I could want. But VNC is painfully slow. We've tried Real VNC and Tight VNC, I've played around with the Capture Method settings, but…
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Is there a more graceful way of listing vncserver sessions than just getting the list of running PIDs?

How do you list your vncserver sessions? This article says to do this: $ cat ~/.vnc/*.pid 5910 6790 16589 21891 ... and many more Using this method, I could write a script to check each pid, but there has got to be something better. Is there a…
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Automatically start VNC server on startup

I installed the Ubuntu desktop on a Ubuntu 9.10 VPS server and am able to connect to the server using TightVNC. However, the VNC server on this VPS can only be started by logging in through SSH and typing the following command: vncserver :1…
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What is the correct way to kill a vncsession in linux?

When I run the following command in my remote linux box that I connect to from my windows 7 laptop via VNC I get the following : [subhrcho@slc04lyo ~]$ ps -ef|grep vnc subhrcho 20113 19804 0 21:40 pts/8 00:00:00 grep vnc subhrcho 27486 1 0…
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How to change screen resolution of VNC server without restarting it?

Is it possible to change the resolution of the viewer specified during starting of the vnc server with the geometry command line argument? I have a vncserver configured for a wide screen monitor but I want to view it on a 1024x768 screen.
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Remote Desktop for OS X that's better than VNC?

VNC just feels sluggish and inefficient, and occasionally has display glitches. On windows, I can use Remote Desktop (RDP / MSTSC), and on Linux I can use NX Server, both of which are much better performing than VNC. Is there anything better than…
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Fast VNC from Windows to Mac?

I regularly need to connect from a Windows box to an OSX box over VNC. OSX has VNC built-in as part of its "Screen Sharing" tool, but for some reason, it's much faster to connect from OSX to OSX or from OSX to Windows than it is to connect from…
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Why does my Windows 7 computer freeze after waking up from Sleep?

Moderator edit: if you have a similar problem, please ask your own question, since it seems there are several things that can cause this situation, it is better to treat each case separately. Hey guys. I have Windows 7 running on my computer and…
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Remmina: Unknown authentication scheme from VNC server: 13, 5, 6, 130, 192

I am trying to set up a VNC connection from my PC (Ubuntu 18.04) to a headless (I can use only terminal) Raspberry Pi zero w (Rasbian 2020) using Remmina, but I am getting the error window: Unknown authentication scheme from VNC server: 13, 5, 6,…
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VNC port numbers

According to Wikipedia: VNC by default uses TCP port 5900+N,[5][6] where N is the display number (usually :0 for a physical display). Several implementations also start a basic HTTP server on port 5800+N to provide a VNC viewer as a Java applet,…
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Is it possible to run games over remote desktop?

I'm not expecting to run hardcore games, but maybe simpler games where low frame is OK. I have a 1gbit network between my computers. How can I set up my computers so I can remotely play games?
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TigerVNC viewer: no matching security types

I'm trying to remote control the desktop of a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie) from a Samsung Chromebook (ARM Arch Linux). The VNC server running on the Pi is RealVNC. The VNC viewer on the Chromebook is TigerVNC I'm getting the following error when I…
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How to save connection settings in TightVNC Viewer?

I use TightVNC Viewer version 1.4.0 and want to save 75% scale and Full-screen mode settings. When I set them, close connection and then open it again, settings are default again. How to save it permanently? Is it possible to save a password?
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