Comments on: iChat-like remote desktop sharing for Linux

By: vdanen

vdanen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:20:21 +0000

Michael: I can only assume it’s a bug in Fedora 12… it tells me I need a backend before I can setup an account, and I do have the telepathy-gabble package installed, but when I go to add an account, I get this backend notice (and there’s nothing to pick from). Very odd, but I haven’t looked at it very much yet. I’ll look a bit more today.

Krfb is new to me, but I don’t really use KDE. Thanks, I’m going to look into that as well.

Lots of options apparently. =) I had no idea there were so many. Thanks everyone!

By: Kevin Kofler

Kevin Kofler — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:00:04 +0000

There’s also KDE’s Krfb.

By: Ahmed Kamal

Ahmed Kamal — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:39:48 +0000

Skype for Linux has screen sharing too eh

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:05:16 +0000

Empathy actually uses vino under the hood, e.g. it spawns a copy over dbus. The nice part is having VNC tunneled through telepathy tubes though… so you don’t have to worry about NATs etc!

Btw what “backend” are you talking about? Just make sure you also have the “telepathy-gabble” package installed for XMPP support (iirc the Fedora rpm depends on this “backend”) and yes, all this is XMPP-only.

By: hamuju

hamuju — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:59:54 +0000

Empathy’s remote function runs over vino afaik. So you have to install vino in order to use this.

By: vdanen

vdanen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:57:21 +0000

ooo…. more options. Never heard of vino before. Will have to check that out.

Thanks for the tidbit on x11vnc… I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks! Skype isn’t something I’m overly interested in. I don’t trust skype.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:45:51 +0000

x11vnc shares current X11 display.

Another option is the latest beta of skype, which offers desktop sharing.

By: Mace Moneta

Mace Moneta — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:33:30 +0000

vino provides desktop sharing for the currently running Gnome desktop. Once installed, you can enbale it by going to System->Preferences->Remote Desktop.

By: vdanen

vdanen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:28:08 +0000

Oh slick. I just stuck empathy on my F12 machine but it tells me I need to install a backend and doesn’t give me the option of setting up an account. Will have to explore further when I have more available time. Thanks for the tip!

Eugeni: does that actually let you see their screen that they’re logged into? I thought it would open up a second desktop, not what they are currently looking at.

By: jorge

jorge — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:14:10 +0000

Have you checked out recent Empathy? It has a right-click share desktop built right in.