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message = If you choose to follow this guidance, you are doing so at your own riskProceed with extreme caution. It This guidance has not been known to tested nor will be supported by Amahi. Continuing could break the your HDA for most usersand a reinstall from scratch may be necessary.}}<div style="border: 1px solid #A3B1BF; padding: .8em 1em; background-color: #E6F2FF; margin: 0px 1em;">'''NOTE:''' The one-click [https://www. Unfortunately we cannot provide any support in such casesamahi. A complete reinstall of org/apps/vnc VNC App] has been discontinued for Amahi 7 or greater. The reason is often neededthat it pulls a lot of packages, including desktop and that breaks DNS in Fedora.}}</div><br />
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= Desktop Installation Amahi 8/9 (Fedora 21/23) Desktop Installation =
For TigerVNC to work a Desktop Environment must be installed even if the HDA does not boot to the selected Desktop Environment.
This installation guidance is based on a clean installation of Amahi 8 or 9, installing Fedora 21/23 using the [https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/[Amahi_8_Install |Fedora 21 Server DVD]/] or [[https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_9_Install |Fedora 23 Server DVD] and following the installation instructions [https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Fedora_21_Server_Install Fedora 21 Server Install ]/[https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Fedora_23_Server_Install Fedora 23 Server Install ]. The Cinnamon Desktop Environment was selected as it operates well on low spec computers. I will attempt other desktop environments over next few months. For Amahi 9 on Fedora 23 , LXDE works. It has an extremely small footprint (~40Mb) and operates extremely well on old hardware. <div style="border: 1px solid #A3B1BF; padding: .8em 1em; background-color: #E6F2FF; margin: 0px 1em;">'''NOTE:''' The one-click [https://www.amahi.org/apps/vnc VNC App] has been discontinued for Amahi 7 or greater. The reason is that it pulls a lot of packages, including desktop and that breaks DNS in Fedorainstall method.</div>
* As root, install Cinnamon Desktop Environment:
systemctl set-default graphical.target
* As root, install LXDE Desktop Environment:
yum install tigervnc-server
Note: For Fedora 23, use dnf instead of yum
*Once install we need to create new configuration file, vncserver@.service is only a template file, from this we need to create a the following config file.
= Password Setup =
*These are universal for both Amahi 8 and 9
* Set the VNC password for the user as defined in the vncserver@:1.service, this will create the .VNC folder for each user and place a file called passwd inside the folder.
= Setup Desktop Environment Access =
* Modification of the ~/.vnc/xstartup will be required to run the Cinnamon Desktop-Environment. At this point the xstartup file doesn't exist so we do the following.
For this example we need to login as the user.
nano ~/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh
#
exec /usr/bin/cinnamon-session
== Amahi 9 (Fedora 23) ==
For the LXDE Desktop on Amahi 9 (Fedora 23), modify the xstartup to the below.
#!/bin/sh
#
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
lxterminal &
/usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE &lxterminal &
= Starting Tiger VNC =
