How to stop x11vnc from shutting down when I log out?
Same problem for me on Kubuntu 16.04.1, but your script given me an idea for a solution.
Create a service file for systemd:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/x11vnc.service
this is my x11vnc.service
file's:
[Unit]
Description=Start x11vnc at startup.
After=multi-user.target display-manager.service
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/x11vnc -auth /var/run/sddm/* -noxdamage -norepeat -rfbauth /home/x11vnc/passwd -display :0 -rfbport 5900 -shared -o /var/log/x11vnc.log'
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Set permissions for execute:
sudo chmod u+x /etc/systemd/system/x11vnc.service
Reload and activate script on systemd:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable x11vnc.service
Important: Be sure to not use the -loop
and -forever
options on the x11vnc
command otherwise x11vnc will not be able to kill the process after a logout and systemd will not be able to restart the service.
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Ben
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Ben about 1 year
At boot I have
sudo x11vnc -xkb -noxrecord -forever -noxfixes -noxdamage -display :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -usepw
run via init.d
It works and shows me the login prompt when I use a VNC Client, however if I the logout the VNC server gets shutdown and I have to SSH in to restart it, I found and modified a script that I think should work:
#!/bin/bash if pgrep "x11vnc" then echo "Running" else echo "Stopped" sudo x11vnc -xkb -noxrecord -forever -noxfixes -noxdamage -display :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -usepw fi
and it does (its in /usr/local/bin/testvnc if I run it however my cron job:
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/testvnc
It says its been run cat var/log/syslog | grep vnc however it does NOT start the vnc.