Thanks a lot, everyone, for documenting this method on the list! I really wish I would have known that earlier - for my TelegramBot, I always used to ssh -X to my raspi and then kill and restart the image. RFBServer sounds so much more convenient!

Maybe we should also put this into a Swiki.

Best,
Christoph

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On 2022-12-04T10:42:00+01:00, herbertkoenig at gmx.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> for all my RasPis nowadays I'm tunnelling TigerVNV through Putty.
> TigerVNC is the successor of TightVNC, but both can be found via the
> 'add software'. RealVNC was said to eat too many resources (Raspi A+, 2013)
> 
> Somewhere I once read that RFB only supports 8 character passwords which
> I didn't find safe enough for a public Linux server. But I always only
> connect to one of the RasPis at a time so I can always use the same port.
> 
> Back when running a public AidaWeb server I used the Squeak RFBserver
> also tunnelled through Putty. But that had enough power.
> 
> The same setup works on my Linux and on my Windows laptop.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Herbert
> 
> 
> 
> Am 04.12.2022 um 04:19 schrieb David T. Lewis:
> > On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 01:42:43PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
> >> A couple of extra points from my experience using the RFB server -
> >>
> >> - the RealVNC viewer I use for my Pi systems doesn't connect properly,
> >>    complaining about some rectangle protocol or other. Other people have
> >>    mentioned I think 'vinegar' and 'remmini' viwers as working.
> > I have been using vinagre as my VNC client for quite a few years, and it
> > works fine for me. But according to the all-knowing internet, vinagre is
> > now "discontinued" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinagre) so I don't
> > know what to recommend for a modern Linux VNC client.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
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