Remote desktop to the controller UI

Technical Questions Robot Communication
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If you are comfortable with the command line, we solved it as follows:

  1. ssh into the robot
  2. make sure the line in /etc/apt/sources.list starting with deb-src is not commented
  3. Install screen and x11vnc:
    • apt-get update
    • apt-get install screen
    • apt-get install x11vnc
  4. Add the following line to /etc/rc.local (obviously, somewhere above exit 0) so that vnc server is started automatically:
    screen -dmS vnc x11vnc -forever -clip 800x600+114+85 -scale 734x576
  5. Reboot robot and test with a vnc client.

You may need to play with the clipping and scaling since they may vary depending on the linux version.

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