I installed tightvnc on my PC client and it works fine. Thanks for that advice. Hostname is simply stellarmate and password smate then I see the Pi display (bypassing the dashboard interface) and a much better response time. This is still not as fast as running kstars installed locally on my PC with a remote profile. You get a much much better display running the windows version of Kstars especially when you have 2 monitors. Anyway I want to try the VNC as this eliminates a possible weak link of communicating across the local LAN although I have used that method for sometime and found it to be very reliable. The main reason to use VNC is to see if guiding works better.

I notice using VNC some of the EKOS dialog TABS are messy with text labels misplaced and too large which is a shame. Tried different screen resolutions but it didn't make a difference. Maybe this is an X11 issue.

I have not fiddled with the Pi VNC server to see if there are settings to improve performance because I haven't found them yet? In fact the dashboard icon to run Kstars is labelled noVNC!

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