News How to Fix Raspberry Pi's 'Cannot Currently Show the Desktop' Error

[Admin]

If you get a 'cannot currently show the desktop' error when trying to connect to your Raspberry Pi over VNC, here are four possible solutions.

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[DEJHy]

Changing the resolution to 1920x1280 worked fine for me. Thanks.

 

[DerrickPhon]

DMT Mode 35 1280x1024 60Hz 5:4 works for me, Thanks for the solution!

 

[paja]

Changing resolution on DMT 35 1280x 1024 via SSH on RaspPi helps me as well. Thank you.

 

[ashk98]

I was working on installing maven on my raspberry pi3b+ and when I rebooted it, it asked me to enter my password again. Upon entering the password a message pops up: Cannot currently show the desktop".
I tried the following but nothing worked:
a) changed the screen resolution to 1280 x 720 and 1920 x 1080
b) installed and reinstalled Lx session
c) booted to desktop mode
d) cleared some space

 

[IceBotYT]

I changed it to autologin to desktop, but now I can't SSH into it or use VNC. Help?!

 

[M7D]

If doesn't fix try

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

it worked with me