what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
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what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
I need to remote into my MintBox and have just installed Mint 19. When I go to setup Desktop Sharing, it is not there anymore! What happened and better yet, how do I install it?
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Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
tons of searching and trying out the options to load, run vino, nothing worked. However, the only roundabout way I could figure this out (and it worked!) is via these instructions:
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2334
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2334
Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
Hi,
I tried vino but performance is not good.
you can try installing x11 vnc which works great for me.
https://blog.sagartambe.com/index.php/2 ... e-package/
I tried vino but performance is not good.
you can try installing x11 vnc which works great for me.
https://blog.sagartambe.com/index.php/2 ... e-package/
Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
Or, alternatively, a more advanced solution would be to give this one a shot:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2Go
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2Go
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Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
Gnome made the current vino version (the default desktop sharing server in 18.x) very hard to set-up outside of Gnome Shell so it was removed during the Mint 19 beta and not replaced.
It is possible to get vino up and running if you really want to (I prefer x11vnc also) - see the tail end of this thread - viewtopic.php?f=90&t=272356
For custom Nemo actions, useful scripts for the Cinnamon desktop, and Cinnamox themes visit my Github pages.
Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
Any reason not to use the x11vnc that is in the Mint 19 distro?tosagartambe wrote: ⤴Tue Oct 09, 2018 2:35 am Hi,
I tried vino but performance is not good.
you can try installing x11 vnc which works great for me.
https://blog.sagartambe.com/index.php/2 ... e-package/
Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
Running vino on Linux Mint 19 is actually easy. Install the package vino then do the following.
To start desktop sharing:
To stop desktop sharing:
Settings for vino can be modified using dconf-editor under the following entry:
This will start vino-server listening on port 5900 by default with local acceptance of the connection required. You will need to open this port in firewall settings to permit access by remote systems. I prefer to manually start vino-server when needed rather than make it a startup action.
Regards,
Neil
To start desktop sharing:
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systemctl --user start vino-server
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systemctl --user stop vino-server
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/org/gnome/desktop/remote-access/
Regards,
Neil
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Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
The only tricky bit is setting an access password inNeil Darlow wrote: ⤴Thu Nov 08, 2018 3:29 pm Settings for vino can be modified using dconf-editor under the following entry:Code: Select all
/org/gnome/desktop/remote-access/
dconf-editor
. The password is stored as a hash. To generate the hash you need to run echo -n 'password' | base64
in a terminal replacing password with your password of choice. The output of this command is the string you put into the password key in dconf-editor.For custom Nemo actions, useful scripts for the Cinnamon desktop, and Cinnamox themes visit my Github pages.
Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
That is true. I don't understand why vino has been built without gnome-keyring support. It would be convenient to use that instead of having to use dconf-editor to set the password.
Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
x11vnc has a known bug which causes it to crash often when changing window decorations. It is orphaned and there is no plan of addressing this bug.tosagartambe wrote: ⤴Tue Oct 09, 2018 2:35 am Hi,
I tried vino but performance is not good.
you can try installing x11 vnc which works great for me.
https://blog.sagartambe.com/index.php/2 ... e-package/
Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
For the life of me, I couldn't get it to start as a service at boot time. I think its because I had Mint running on a PC without a monitor. I gave up on it and am still looking for a solution to allow me to attach to Mint desktop remotely.
Re: what happened to Desktop Sharing in Mint 19 (Tara)
Your replying on a 2018 post, I use https://www.nomachine.com/download works great.
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