I am trying to set up remote access to my Ubuntu device (Ubuntu 18.04.2 desktop) from Windows 10.
I tried xRDP but could only get a pale blue screen appearing. Also the device is set to auto-login so I don't think xRDP will work as I read there are issues if there is an existing login session.
Looking for something simpler, I tried TeamViewer and NoMachine and both worked fine until I disconnected the monitor from the device and put it in the cabinet where I intend to store and run it from. For both applications, I get a black screen.
NoMachine has an article about configuring its own X server which I followed but no change. In another article, I found like TeamViewer it considers headless/monitorless unsupported.
I've now found references to setting up a virtual display as outlined here. However after copying pasting the text into the 20-intel.conf file, it's still not visible in the list of displays if I run xrandr. As shown below:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 531mm x 299mm
1920x1080 60.00*+ 60.00 50.00 59.94
1920x1080i 60.00 60.00 50.00 59.94
1680x1050 59.88
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x960 60.00
1280x800 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00 50.00
720x576i 50.00 50.00
720x480 60.00 60.00 59.94 59.94 59.94
720x480i 60.00 60.00 59.94 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 60.00 59.94 59.94
720x400 70.08
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Could someone please provide some advice/pointers on how to proceed at this point and if there is an easier to implement a solution?
