start vncserver at boot – ubuntu 14.04

Start vncserver at boot – ubuntu 14.04

Date Posted: 05-10-2017

Write a sample script startvnc.sh and update the code mentioned below.

vi /root/startvnc.sh

#! /bin/bash

USER=root
HOME=/root
export USER HOME

cd /root
/usr/bin/vncserver :1

Make this script executable

chmod +x /root/startvnc.sh

Update rc.local file with this script

vi /etc/rc.local 

Find ‘exit 0‘ and paste these codes above the line

# Start vncserver
/usr/bin/startvnc.sh

You can verify the server just be rebooting. You should be able to access vncserver from vnc client

SERVER_IP:1 

Thats it.