How to Run VASSAL on Android

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Hi Hugh,

Good news with the mouse.

Typically, a hard shutdown is done by long pressing the power button (10s or so), or some combination of the power button and volume up or down. If you know the make and model of the device, a search on the internet will typically come up with an answer.

Perhaps you should consider the (alternative) method that does not rely on a VNC client:

It is a tad simpler, and I think a slightly better user experience. The two methods of running VASSAL on Android (VNC or X11) can co-exist.

OK, good.

There’s a couple of things that could go wrong:

  • The port number is incorrect. I believe the Termux VNC server reports the port number in a log file - maybe you can find that and verify that your port number is correct. Perhaps you have multiple vncserver running in Termux, and they get assigned new port numbers. You can try to execute ps aux in Termux to see if you have more than one vncserver running. If you do, you can do

     kill -9 <pid>

    were <pid> is the process number of the vncserver instances.

  • If you’ve set a non-blank password via vncpasswd, then you must give that password when connecting. Perhaps try to reset the password again by executing vncpasswd in Termux.

I would recommend you try the alternative set-up method cited above. It gets rid of the head-ache of VNC and uses a (Termux) native X11 client.

Yours,
Christian