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Subject: Re: how to use laptop keyboard, mouse and screen?
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:28:10 +0100, Another Dave wrote:

> On 15/07/2015 06:12, Maurice SAAB wrote:
>> Hello:
>> how to configure RPi to use laptop keyboard, mouse and screen instead
>> of separate ones?
>>
>> thank you
> Connect your Pi to your router with the RJ45 socket (preferably not
> wireless at this stage).
> 
> Download Putty SSH client to your Windows machine.
> 
> http://www.putty.org
> 
> Raspbian has an SSH server enabled by default. You need the IP address
> of you Pi which you can get by
> 
> a. connecting a TV to the Pi and watching what IP it says when it boots
> 
> Or, better,
> 
> b. bring up the web page of your modem router in your browser. I don't
> know what router you have but you can Google the IP address of the
> router. Try 192.168.1.254 for starters. You should then be able to find
> the IP of your Pi without the need to connect a TV.
> 
> Type the IP of your Pi into Putty and it should give you a User/Password
> prompt.
> 
> Once (if?) you've connected you can download a VNC server to the Pi by
> typing
> 
> sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
> 
> run it by typing
> 
> vncserver :1 -geometry 1280x800 -depth 16 -pixelformat rgb565
> 
> On Windows download UltraVNC
> 
> http://www.uvnc.com/
> 
> Run it and type PiIPaddress:1
> 
> into the box. PiIPaddress is the address of the Pi you got from the
> router previously. You should, after a short (10 secs) pause get the GUI
> on your windows machine'

I installed TightVNC on my Pi and although I could connect to it from a 
Windows PC also running TightVNC I found I couldn't close down the Pi and 
a forced close down or power off corrupted the SD card.

All a bit of a pain, because TightVNC works well between Windows PCs and 
seemed an ideal solution.

Cheers

Dave R





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