Post #3508866
2026-07-01 09:57 UTC
Where was I? Right. I started with RDP. I could not find reliable info on how to connect to an RDP server from MacOS, nor whether it's possible, so I didn't get far.
So I switched to VNC. I used VNC 20 years ago. MacOS supports it. Let's see what's changed. I looked at RealVNC, tightVNC, and tigerVNC. RealVNC is apparently paid now. tightVNC is Windows first now(!) and only old versions support Linux. That leaves tigerVNC.
5/N
#RDP #VNC #RealVNC #tightVNC #tigerVNC
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@kbob@chaos.social 2026-07-01 10:02
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