screen sharing on Ubuntu?

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 14:15 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.

I know, I used one (early 2000's), and it was an absolute bastard.
Extraordinarily difficult to install and configure. Maybe there were
better ones I dodn't know about. Maybe there are better ones now -
which would you recommend?

> > 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.

Maybe I'm just ignorant, but how can I get my X desktop onto another
person's X display (Windows or otherwise) so that they can see it and
control it?

Regards, K.

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