[ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

[Tony Pursell]

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 22:31 +0100, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> One thing I spotted today was that there's a telepathy plugin for
> Remmina - the Remote Desktop Application, and from the looks of
> things, if you've both got it installed, you can right click on a
> contact in empathy and select "Share My Desktop" - although, to be
> fair, that might have been there before I installed that plugin!
> 
> 
> All the best,
> --
> Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
> 
> 
> On 29 March 2011 16:48, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         
>         On 29 March 2011 16:36, Tony Pursell
>         <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>                 On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:59 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>                 > On 29 March 2011 11:52, Simon Greenwood
>                 <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 > > Teamviewer has a Linux client that's free to use.
>                 >
>                 > Technically it has a windows client which runs in
>                 WINE. They don't
>                 > have a native Linux client.
>                 >
>                 
>                 
>                 So what is this I have in Applications > Internet >
>                 TeamViewer6?
>                 
>                 Menu points
>                 to /opt/teamviewer/teamviewer/6/bin/teamviewer.
>                 
>                 I haven't ever used it as I have no friends to play
>                 with :(
>                 
>                 
>         
>         
>         It is a Wine app. Start it up and it will offer you a test
>         connection to one of Teamviewer's remote desktops. It seems to
>         work OK.
>         
>         
>         I've used Yuuguu in the past too and it works pretty well.
>         
>         
>         s/ 
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> 

Yes, Jabber (as implemented in Empathy) has had desktop sharing for a
long time.

And I'm still not convinced that TeamViewer has anything to do with
Wine...

Tony