Connecting the Pi to keyboard, mouse and screen was a right pain: there’s limited room on my desk that is already occupied by the keyboard mouse and screen of another computer. Also, it seems that one of better things to do with a Pi is to stick it on wheels so it can drive itself around, in which case physical connections have to go.

So, I installed tightvnc, following the guide at Penguin tutor. I use xtightvncviewer on my main computer. I’ve written a two-line bash script so that it connects from the command line just by typing pi. On my tablet I’ve got android vnc viewer (but haven’t yet used it much).