screen sharing on Ubuntu?

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:29:50PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 12:09 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > Surely it's called X, the basis of the display system on Linux (and
> > other Unix systems since the year dot).
> 
> Well, for people running Unix, it's X. People running Windows would
> have to install an X server, which is a way bigger step even than
> installing Synergy for NoMachine.
> 
There used to be lots of X servers for windpows, way back when I used
to run Windows NT4 as my desktop machine with an X server on it
showing my main Linux machine.


> My specific need is for a Windows user to be able to see (and ideally
> control) an Ubuntu desktop, remotely.
> 
Well I don't see installing an X server being any more difficult than
installing other things *and* you don't have to do anything at the
Ubuntu end at all.

-- 
Chris Green