Post #3508865
2026-07-01 10:02 UTC
It wasn't too hard to run tigerVNC from a terminal, I just had to follow the instructions, then figure out why display :0 wasn't available, then write a shell script to start a Cinnamon session, then rewrite it a few times until it worked, and then find the right way to address a nonzero display from the Mac. (Hint: it's vnc://hostname:5901 because everybody loves magic numbers). Five, six hours of faffing, tops. Easy.
So let's get this running as a daemon.
6/N
#MacOSIsGuiltyToo
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@kbob@chaos.social 2026-07-01 10:12
Sometime since 2012, a new utility has become part of Linux. It's called systemd. You may have heard of it. Installing a daemon means working with systemd. I've never really used it before, though if you need SysV init scripts, I'm your man. The SysV init system was apparently too complicated and opaque, a nest of little shell scripts and symlinks. So systemd simplifies all that. Many pages of angry text have been written about systemd; I'm not going there. I'm just sad. 7/N #systemd