VNC remote control your Raspberry Pi – Part 2

My recent article was about VNC on your Raspberry Pi. I showed you how to set up a VNC server and how to connect to it from a VNC client program. The problem is, that after a reboot, you have to start a VNC session manually from command line. This has to be changed.

Configuration

We start at our home directory. There we jump into the hidden config directory:

cd /home/pi/.config

There we create a new folder ‚autostart‘ and move into that folder:

mkdir autostart
cd autostart

The last thing we have to do is to create  a new file with commands, that automatically start our VNC server during booting. Here is how it works:

vi tightvnc.desktop

we add the following lines to the new file:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=TightVNC
Exec=vncserver :1
StartupNotify=false

Save it and you are done. After each reboot of the graphical mode, your VNC server is also started.

Part 1