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I have a mac mini I use as a media server. It has no keyboard, mouse, or display. I VNC into it from my iPad or use Screen Sharing from my Macbook Air just fine
by braythwayt 6y ago
I have a mac mini I use as a media server. It has no keyboard, mouse, or display. I VNC into it from my iPad or use Screen Sharing from my Macbook Air just fine, although I have reached for a keyboard once to solve a problem.
But I do not doubt you are describing a real problem. Can you tell me under what circumstances using a remote desktop requires a mouse and keyboard to be physically plugged in?
- paxswill 6y agoNot so much mouse and keyboard, but display. For at least a while (not sure if it's still the case) graphics acceleration would be disabled if there wasn't a display, leading to things like [0] and [1] 0: https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/build-a-dummy-dongle-for-a-headless-mac-mini.html https://macminicolo.net/blog/files/build-a-dummy-dongle-for-... 1: https://www.amazon.com/NewerTech-Headless-Video-Accelerator-Dummy/dp/B01ASJCZFK https://www.amazon.com/NewerTech-Headless-Video-Accelerator-...
- braythwayt 6y agoThank you. I had no idea. That could explain why VNC is slow on my mini, but since I use it primarily as a headless server, I can live with that.
- bluegreyred 6y agothis was fixed in software a while ago, even my old 2011 (?) Mac mini no longer needed the dummy hdmi dongle connected to have aresponsive/hw accelerated UI via remote access
- yoz-y 6y agoOn laptops you need to have a mouse keyboard and a screen connected if you want to be able to keep it turned on in clamshell mode. Can't say about desktops.
- Willamin 6y agoAn interesting way to achieve this that I've recently discovered is that I can use Apple's built-in Screen Sharing application to act as the keyboard, mouse, and display when connecting to a clamshell MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro then only needs to be connected to power and the network.