Jasem.
1) If I use stellarmate.local:6080 I go straight to the novnc web page, select connect, login with stellarmate password. This shows me the normal web page with applications on left hand side of desktop and applications on menu bar at the top. I can then run kstars and off we go.
2) If I use stellarmate.local without port number I go to the dashboard stellarmate.local/#/home. From here I see extra stuff like system stats and the local weather, hardware and diagnostics etc. I can also launch vnc from dashboard and it looks pretty much like 1) except the window is smaller because its got the dashboard menu top and left.
3) Also, can use stellarmate.local:8624 which is stellarmate web manager but I have not fiddled with this.
4) My normal mode of working is to install xrdp on the raspberry pi then use Remote Desktop from my PC which pretty much looks like 1) as well.
5) Another mode of working I have used is to run kstars locally on my PC and connect remotely to indi on the raspberry pi.
6) Then there's the app. ?
7) Then there's realvnc?

This is all great stuff Jasem and we are spoilt for choice. Thank you for all this effort. Would be great if there was documentation (and there may be) that outlines the various ways of running Stellarmate and their pros and cons.

My understanding is realvnc needs a license. For the moment I am OK with remote desktop or method 1 which on my windows 11 PC and pi model 5 both give a pretty acceptable performance.

PS. In the end I did re-image pi 5 as mentioned by Manel which solved the vnc issue. I didn't get to the bottom of the problem but I do remember in top left of screen I had the raspberry pi icon and not the stellarmate icon with the first image I installed.

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