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I tried to make a script which start x11vnc at boot but it don't seem to work.

The script path: /home/pi/.config/autostart/x11vnc.desktop

with the following contents:

[DESKTOP ENTRY]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=X11VNC
Comment=
Exec=x11vnc -forever -usepw -display :0 -ultrafilexfer
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false
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    Hello and welcome! Do you have any error messages or some logs that might be useful to answer?
    – Ghanima ♦
    Apr 8, 2015 at 8:49
  • Hello and thank you, no I haven't get any error message or logs
    – Dan Snow
    Apr 8, 2015 at 15:37

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
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Display :0 is used by the Console session. Starting x11vnc with -display :1 should then use a new display session and work correctly.
Remember you will need to tell your viewer to connect to :1 (or ::5901) to connect to this session.

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  • I want to use the current desktop session is the reason why I use -display :0. Everything work fine when I execute the command from the terminal but when I try to automatically boot the script nothing happen
    – Dan Snow
    Apr 8, 2015 at 15:35
  • Which method are you using to automatically run the command? If you are running it while the runlevel is too low (when there is no X server running) then it would not work.
    – user2392903
    Apr 9, 2015 at 13:17

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