Last month I decided to seek options for replacing Evernote, which has been my document repository. By document repository, I mean the place in which I store clips of web pages (often receipts), links to web sites, and other miscellaneous information. The first step of that process was exporting my current content from Evernote to another application, which
turned out to be Obsidian. Next, I sought out a replacement to which I can store the same information I have been storing in Evernote, and for the moment that appears to be Joplin.
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At this moment I have Joplin installed on my
Macbook Air M1, iPad Mini, and Pixel 7a, with end to end encryption enabled and synchronization using OneDrive. During last week I endeavored to set up Joplin and synchronization in a VM that I can use as a remote desktop during my work day. I've been using a Ubuntu 20.04 LXC container to run a LXQT remote desktop but found that the OneDrive client will not work in the container because it doesn't directly support
FUSE in the manner that OneDrive expects.
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I created new VMs running Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 12 using TigerVNC, which is what I use for my remote desktop container, and had random lock ups. Then I found instructions for using xrdb on Ubuntu 22.04 and built a VM based on those instructions yesterday. I've used the new VM all day and after some tweaks I think I have a workable solution.
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The main problem I now have is that I can't seem to get RDP to display the desktop in the same size window has I have with VNC. With VNC I am able to display about two thirds of the LXQT desktop in a window that fully extends from top to bottom of my
BenQ Monitor. I then have whichever browser I am using take up that whole space which allow see a larger amount of a web page. This allows me to continue seeing my work desktop and my personal desktop (in a window) at the same time. I can configure RDP to display full screen on my monitor, but so far I haven't been able to resize it in a way that doesn't distort the display. For the time being I am viewing my full remote desktop in a 2560x1600 window.
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- I just changed the font in Drummer to Ubuntu, and that looks much better in the VM in Chrome.#
- Increased the DPI in the XFCE Appearance settings from 96 to 100, which also appears to help how fonts display.#
- I've installed Chrome to see whether that makes any difference with the performance. Fonts look better. #
- I am experiencing instances where the display is unresponsive. I am monitoring the VM in Proxmox and I see that memory used is around 3 GB and I allocated 4 GB. Decided to increase the virtual CPUs to 4 and RAM to 8 GB. I also changed the display to VirtIO-GPU from the default. #
- The first positive sign is that the VM was still running when I started up this morning. Perhaps the difference is that I followed these instructions when building the VM, which instructs us to select VirtIOBlock for the storage Bus/Device and previously I used the default.#
- I am going to try using the new Ubuntu VM and xrdp today and see how it works. Unfortunately, I cannot get the display to work the same as how I have had been using VNC, so what I see is in a smaller window. #