#lightdm

Right after the XDMCP class diagrams, there's a secton on VNC server support. lightdm has a VNC proxy delegator thing built in! So fornicate systemd, I just need to add a stanza to lightdm's configuration to listen on port 5901 and call Xvnc. Which I did. And it worked in just a few tries. Success! Tuesday afternoon, maybe 10 hours after I started. Rebooted a couple of times to verify it's really working, and it is. So now I can move on to the next thing. 10/N #LightDM

Anyway, the information on the Internet was uniformly wrong about how to integrate VNC into systemd. Wrong in many interesting ways. I delved into the systemd docs and finally got Xvnc plumbed into it, and then the problem was that VNC didn't have any X clients to run. So I looked up which display manager Mint uses. It's lightdm. (Question for the peanut gallery: does Ubuntu use lightdm? Canonical apparently wrote it, but Ubuntu might have migrated away.) 8/N #LinuxMint #VNC #LightDM