screen sharing on Ubuntu?

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 08:47:36PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 10:08 +0000, Paul Schulz wrote:
> > Also checkout NoMachine - https://www.nomachine.com/
> 
> Looks nice, but as with Synergy you need to install stuff at both ends.
> 
> It seems really strange to me that no-one has written an RDP desktop-
> sharing utility for Linux, given that the entire Windows world has RDP
> clients built in. Or do they? I thought they did. Maybe that's just an
> enterprise thing.
> 
Surely it's called X, the basis of the display system on Linux (and
other Unix systems since the year dot).

Your display is the X server, the programs you use are the X clients.
The clients can run on machines remote from the server.

Unfortunately X seems to have been forgotten somewhat, programs that
use DBus and such to communicate break X.  However many programs still
work well with X.  For example I quite frequently use synaptic on
headless systems with it displaying on my dekstop machine.

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Chris Green