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First, thanks for this post !
I have some trouble while trying to setup an autostart with tightvncserver :
Chapter "Create a systemd service to start VNC automatically at startup"
I have just changed the user name and the depth (24 in my case) parameter in the files.
The service start well after a boot, the status tells that all seems OK but when I try to connect with the client (tightvnc) I have the following message :
Unable to contact settings server
/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error messages.
Then, a second error message :
Unable to load a failsafe session
Unable to determine failsafe sessio name. Possible causes xfconfd isn't running (D-Bus setup problem); environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/etc"), or xfce4-session is installed incorrectly.
Before creating the service (when I started manually tightvncserver), all worked fine.
I have compare the 2 proccesus (manual launching and systemd autostart and there well the same) with the "ps -o pid,user,%mem,command ax | sort -b -k3 -r" cmd :
706 pizero 1.3 Xtightvnc :1 -desktop X -auth /home/pizero/.Xauthority -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 -rfbwait 120000 -rfbauth /home/pizero/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5901 -fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/ -co /etc/X11/rgb
If I stop the systemd service and restart tightvncserver manually, it works well again.
Would you have any idea ?
Also, seem's you need to add xfonts-base to get vncserver running (sudo apt install xfonts-base)
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