For a computer to share its desktop environment it must have VNC Server software.

VNC - which stands for Virtual Network Computing - is a communications protocol letting you access desktop environments on remote computers. The Ubuntu project has integrated the Vino VNC server, and made it easy to configure Vino from the system Settings screens. Enabling remote desktop support on Ubuntu Configuring things such that the Mac is able to display a remote Ubuntu desktop.Enabling remote desktop support on Ubuntu.Getting to this goal requires two major tasks: That the existence of a computer with desktop sharing turned on is advertised using the Bonjour service, such computers then automatically show up in Finder, and you simply click on this button and voila the remote desktop appears on your screen. When it opens, select ‘RDP’ and type the IP address to connection.Apple promises that remote desktop access is this easy. Connect from another Ubuntu or other Linux PC:įrom another Ubuntu/Linux PC, search for and open ‘ Remmina‘ (or Connections for Fedora) from the Activities overview screen. In the authentication dialog, make sure the username and password you typed are correct and finally hit Enter to connect. Then type the computer name or IP address of Ubuntu 22.04 to connect.

With RDP protocol, Windows user can simply search for and open the built-in ‘Remote Desktop Connection’ app from start menu. In my case, the first connection does not work until I re-start the remote-desktop service by running command (press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal): systemctl -user restart rviceĬonnect to Ubuntu 22.04 from Windows 10/11 You can finally click “Remote Desktop” to enable the function and configure user, password, etc. Then navigate to ‘Sharing’ from left, and turn on the toggle icon on right-corner of app header. Firstly, open system settings (Gnome Control Center) from the system tray menu.Ģ. Remote Ubuntu 22.04 desktop from Windows 11 Enable Remote Desktop in Ubuntu 22.04ġ.

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