Raspberry Pi: Amazing Projects from Scratch

Adding a remote graphical user interface

For some steps in your robot build, you will need a graphical look at your system. You can get this on your Raspberry Pi using an application called vncserver. You'll need to install a version of this on your Raspberry Pi by typing in sudo apt-get install tightvncserver in a terminal window on your Raspberry Pi.

Tightvncserver is an application that will allow you to remotely view your complete graphical desktop. Once you have it installed, you can do the following:

1. You'll need to start the server by typing in vncserver in a terminal window on the Raspberry Pi.
2. You will then be prompted for a password, prompted to verify the password, and then asked if you'd like to have a view only password. Remember the ...