You can do this by running the following command: # vncserver -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 :0 You can change the resolution or the colour depth to reduce bandwidth if that is something you need. The next step is pretty straight-forward, all we need to do is start the VNC server.

You can download it using the following steps: # wget -O ~/.vnc/xstartup vnc/xstartup as a Gist on GitHub so you can use that existing file right away.

You can setup your VNC password by running the following command: # vncpasswd It’s important to have a secure password for your VNC because if someone guesses it, they can access your desktop. The first and most important thing you’ll need to setup is your VNC password. Once this process is done, you can move on the installation of the VNC server: # apt-get install vnc4server This installation is going to take quite sometime as it may download up to 1 gigabyte of packages and install them on your machine. # apt-get install gnome-core gnome-session-fallback Once we make sure that our repositories is up-to-date, we’ll start installing GNOME using apt-get. It provides the graphics user interface (GUI) of many of the Linux operating systems, including Ubuntu, RedHat & CentOS. GNOME is an open-source project which is developed by volunteers and paid contributors. You will also need to have a VNC client installed on your server, we recommend TigerVNC. This tutorial assumes that you have some basic VNC knowledge and that you have an Ubuntu server running with SSH access. In simpler terms, it allows you to remotely access a remote server screen on your own (similar to Microsoft Remote Desktop). In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system which transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.

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