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How To Enable Desktop Sharing In Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Desktop sharing refers to technologies that enable remote access and remote collaboration on a computer desktop via a graphical terminal emulator. Desktop sharing allows two or more Internet-enabled computer users to work on the same files from different locations.

In this article, we will show you how to enable desktop sharing in Ubuntu and Linux Mint, with a few vital security features.

Enabling Desktop Sharing in Ubuntu and Linux Mint

1. In the Ubuntu Dash or Linux Mint Menu, search for “desktop sharing” as shown in the following screenshot, once you get it, launch it.

Search for Desktop Sharing in Ubuntu

2. Once you launch Desktop sharing, there are three categories of desktop sharing settings: sharing, security and notification settings.

Under sharing, check the option “Allow others users to view your desktop” to enable desktop sharing. Optionally, you can also permit other users to remotely control your desktops by checking the option “Allow others users to control your desktop”.

Desktop Sharing Preferences

3. Next in security section, you can choose to manually confirm each remote connection by checking the option “You must confirm each access to this computer”.

Again, another useful security feature is creating a certain shared password using the option “Require user to enter this password”, that remote users must know and enter each time they want to access your desktop.

4. Concerning notifications, you can keep an eye on remote connections by choosing to show the notification area icon each time there is a remote connection to your desktops by selecting “Only when someone is connected”.

Configure Desktop Sharing Set

When you have set all the desktop sharing options, click Close. Now you have successfully permitted desktop sharing on your Ubuntu or Linux Mint desktop.

Testing Desktop Sharing in Ubuntu Remotely

You can test to ensure that it’s working using a remote connection application. In this example, I will show you how some of the options we set above work.

5. I will connect to my Ubuntu PC using VNC (Virtual Network Computing) protocol via remmina remote connection application.

Remmina Desktop Sharing Tool

6. After clicking on Ubuntu PC item, I get the interface below to configure my connection settings.

Remmina Desktop Sharing Preferences

7. After performing all the settings, I will click Connect. Then provide the SSH password for the username and click OK.

Enter SSH User Password

I have got this black screen after clicking OK because, on the remote machine, the connection has not been confirmed yet.

Black Screen Before Confirmation

8. Now on the remote machine, I have to accept the remote access request by clicking on “Allow” as shown in the next screenshot.

Allow Remote Desktop Sharing

9. After accepting the request, I have successfully connected, remotely to my Ubuntu desktop machine.

Remote Ubuntu Desktop

That’s it! In this article, we described how to enable desktop sharing in Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Use the comment section below to write back to us.

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Post by alephtaph » Mon May 06, 2019 4:11 pm

I’m a total Linux newbie but I really want to learn and like it, so excuse my question. I didn’t find a quick solution to this topic. I read that earlier versions supported and had an easy solution to Desktop Sharing, but I just can’t get it to work on Mint 19. I installed vino but I just can’t get it to work.

I there an easy dummy like instruction on how to get it to run, or are there any chances that Desktop Sharing from the earlier version is coming back?

Thank you all for your help.

Re: Desktop Sharing

Post by phd21 » Mon May 06, 2019 4:41 pm

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Mint and its excellent forum!

It would help to know more about your system setup. If you run » inxi -Fxzd » and » lsusb » from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information.

There are various options for desktop sharing and or remote control. My favorite is Teamviewer. There are others like «nomachine», «AnyDesk», etc.

If you want to use a remote desktop application, «remmina» and its plugins and add-ons is highly recommended, search the «Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)».

Use Remmina Remote Desktop Client (RDP) on Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04 LTS | Website for Students
https://websiteforstudents.com/use-remm . 18-04-lts/

Ubuntu Remote Desktop — 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux — LinuxConfig.org
https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-remote-d . aver-linux

How to Install the latest Remmina RDC in Ubuntu 18.04/16.04 | UbuntuHandbook
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/201 . 8-0416-04/

Hope this helps .

Re: Desktop Sharing

Post by AndyMH » Tue May 07, 2019 3:21 am

Re: Desktop Sharing

Post by catweazel » Tue May 07, 2019 3:29 am

Re: Desktop Sharing

Post by alephtaph » Tue May 07, 2019 5:54 am

Thank you all for replying. I will give some of them a try, but:

I don’t get why a simple VNC remote desktop is not integrated. Work related I’m a hardcore Windows supporter and at home, I’m running Mac for years, but I want to broaden my horizon and get to know Linux. I choose Linux Mint because everyone was telling me, that this is the easiest if you switch. But I already have to find something simple as this, I’m not sure if I should continue.

I don’t like to use a service that is hosted or accessed from the outside. Not because I’m paranoid or afraid, but I have an already working VPN. I can access my Mac, a Media Center and since my Linux ist installed on an old Mac mini (without Keyboard, Mouse or Screen) I want to just use Remote Desktop.

Do you guys think the developer will bring Desktop Sharing native back?

Please don’t get me wrong, I’m a real dummy when it comes to Linux, but I want to learn, but I’m not a dummy on other IT stuff

Thank you guys and gals

Re: Desktop Sharing

Post by catweazel » Tue May 07, 2019 6:10 am

Re: Desktop Sharing

Post by AndyMH » Tue May 07, 2019 5:12 pm

This was second on the list googling «linux remote desktop» .

Re: Desktop Sharing

Post by smurphos » Wed May 08, 2019 1:09 am

Thank you all for replying. I will give some of them a try, but:

I don’t get why a simple VNC remote desktop is not integrated.

Do you guys think the developer will bring Desktop Sharing native back?

Please don’t get me wrong, I’m a real dummy when it comes to Linux, but I want to learn, but I’m not a dummy on other IT stuff

It used to be (Mint 18.x), but the VNC server used -vino- is a component of the Gnome project and in their wisdom the Gnome devs decided at some point between 18.3 and 19 that vino didn’t need it’s own standalone preference GUI and it should be managed from with a Gnome settings module. Result — vino set-up in any other desktop environment is much harder. This was picked up by the Mint devs late in the beta for Mint 19 and the quickest fix given the imminent release was to rip out vino as a default app. I guess they could have written their own settings GUI for it, but haven’t chosen to do that, I suspect because there is a plethora of other GUI options available such as the recommended no-machine.

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Post by woodsman » Wed May 21, 2014 8:56 pm

I am using LMDE, fully updated.

I want to use desktop sharing. The vino package aand dependencies are installed. Throughout the web I read references to vino-preferences. Yet no such file exists and looking at the package contents at the Debian web site indicates the file is no longer part of the package.

Thus I have no idea how a user is supposed to allow connections using vino.

When I manually run vino-server I receive the following error:

«The desktop sharing service is not enabled, so it should not be run.»

I looked through the init scripts and services and do not find anything obvious. I do not know what ‘desktop sharing service’ is not enabled.

I installed x11vnc server and connected just fine. Yet x11vnc is ugly and crude looking. I prefer an app or dialogs that match the desktop environment.

Is vino broken or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks.

Re: Where is desktop sharing?

Post by AlanWalker » Wed May 21, 2014 11:28 pm

woodsman wrote: I am using LMDE, fully updated.

I want to use desktop sharing. The vino package aand dependencies are installed. Throughout the web I read references to vino-preferences. Yet no such file exists and looking at the package contents at the Debian web site indicates the file is no longer part of the package.

Thus I have no idea how to a user is supposed to allow connections using vino.

When I manually run vino-server I receive the following error:

«The desktop sharing service is not enabled, so it should not be run.»

I looked through the init scripts and services and do not find anything obvious. I do not know what ‘desktop sharing service’ is not enabled.

I installed x11vnc server and connected just fine. Yet x11vnc is ugly and crude looking. I prefer an app or dialogs that match the desktop environment.

Is vino broken or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks.

Re: Where is desktop sharing?

Post by altair4 » Thu May 22, 2014 7:51 am

I no longer support LMDE but there is a Debian bug report that matches your symptoms: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo . bug=729468

If you don’t speak Spanish here is a translation:

siguendo you indicate the link:

the end is the mystery:

# Sudo apt-get install gnome-user-share

After installing the package the option «Screen Sharing» it adds in
«Share» in «gnome-control-center»

Re: Where is desktop sharing?

Post by woodsman » Thu May 22, 2014 1:41 pm

Thank you both for replying. I fiddled with this only for about 20 minutes. My observations and thoughts:

* There no longer is a graphical interface to configure desktop sharing. The vino-preferences tool no longer exists. I suspect the reason is the vino developers now expect upstream gnome packages to provide the respective dialogs. This decision affects all Mint users using a GTK based desktop.

* The gnome-user-share package did not provide me the missing graphical interface. I checked everywhere in the menus, in both Cinnamon and Mate, checked the respective control centers. I don’t know why the Sharing dialog is not readily available anywhere.

* Installing gnome-user-share created three instances of «Personal File Sharing» in the Cinnamon Startup Applications.

* Using dconf or gsettings does indeed enable desktop sharing to avoid the vino-server error I reported. A different message now appears.

* I haven’t yet been able to actually connect but I will pursue this later.

* Even if I got the package to work, rather than installing gnome-user-share I suspect a well-written python script would suffice to replace the now missing vino-preferences dialog. Since Cinnamon now no longer is fully dependent upon gnome, nor Mate or Xfce, looks like a Mint-specific solution is needed.

* The Debian bug report was closed but the original problem is not truly resolved. The problem is a missing dialog. That the problem can be worked around with gsettings does not fix the now missing dialog.

In short, the Mint dev team needs to know that there is no graphical interface to support desktop sharing. Something is needed to replace the now missing vino-preferences dialog. This affects all Mint gtk desktop users. The vino-preferences dialog is the method that provided users the direct one-click toggling of the dconf setting to enable/disable desktop sharing.

The problem now is not that dconf or gsettings can’t be used, which experienced users can overcome, but that there is no direct graphical interface to do this. Thus for a majority of Mint users, sharing the desktop is broken.

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