

Press Ctrl+O to write the changes and Ctrl+X to exit the text editor. Enter in the following into the text file: Type=Application Name=TightVNC Exec=vncserver:1 StartupNotify=false 11. This will open the text editor within LX Terminal. create a new configuration file that will tell the OS to start VNC upon bootup by typing "sudo nano sktop" 10. enter into the folder you just created by typing "cd autostart" 9. create a new folder named "autostart" within the ".config" folder by typing "sudo mkdir autostart" 8. go into the hidden config directory by typing "cd.

This will take you the home/pi directory, obviously. go back to LX Terminal and type in "cd /home/pi". Select "Finish" to exit and save the changes made 5. Do this by opening LX Terminal and typing in "sudo ipconfig" 2. Setup the Pi to boot into the graphical user Interface (this is the actual desktop environment that you interact with) automatically at start-up. But what happens when you lose power to the Pi, or when you restart it? Will you have to hook up a monitor and keyboard every time to start the VNC server again? Of course not! Here's how to setup your Pi, so that you never have to hook up another keyboard and mouse to it again. Now that you have the ability to VNC into your Pi, you will likely never want to hook it up to a monitor, mouse and keyboard again. Now you can use any computer on your network with a VNC client to remotely access the Raspberry Pi Once you have entered a password you are done! The VNC server is now running in the background of your Raspberry Pi's operating system. Keep in mind passwords can be at MOST 8 characters long. Once tight VNC server has completed installation you can start it by typing in "vncserver:1" 6.

After updating is complete type in "sudo install tightvncserver". When prompted to update type in "y" and press enter 4. In LX terminal type in "sudo apt-get update" to update the operating system to the latest version 3. It makes setting up the Raspberry Pi - which will from now on be affectionately referred to as Pi - VERY easy! Once you have an operating system running here are the required steps to install a VNC server: 1. Once you download it to an SD card, it pretty much will install itself. (Raspbian was used for this instructable) If you have not yet installed an operating system, a common, well documented stable one is Raspbian which can be installed by using NOOBS (New-out-of-box-software). This instructable will assume that you have already gotten Raspbian or some operating system installed.
