[ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

[Jon Spriggs]

The client uses Wine to run the GUI, however, I don't know whether the
service it attaches to uses Wine.
--
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs


On 29 March 2011 22:51, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
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