Dear Physics 129 students one of your classmates wrote up a set of instructions to connect your rpi to a laptop with VNC (THANK YOU). His instructions are here http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/claudio/ph129-w19/RPI_SSH_VNC_Guide.pdf My instructions to achieve the same results using the X11 client-server model had already been posted here http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/claudio/ph129-w19/hints.txt (there is more than one way to solve a problem). C.