Tag: remote desktop

An easy way to enable VNC in Ubuntu 14.04

i’ve struggled today for a few hours to get XDMCP connections running on my new tv server. in the end i posted on a few forums and gave up. a bit frustrating!

but i still didn’t want to leave my seat without having any ability to log into my server without gui, so i opted for a simple vnc server solution:

  1. you need to have the gnome-session-flashback package installed through apt-get
  2. you need to log into at least one session that is a gnome (fallback) one.
  3. go to applications > system tools > preferences > desktop sharing
and that solves the problem. you must have at least one desktop session running, logged into Gnome-flashback and this user must have the connection allowed.

Exporting Sound with XDMCP

Some of you might be connecting to your remote linux box using XDMCP. While that would export the display,what would one do if one wanted to play a song on the remote box but hear it on the present system? well that can be easily done using the arts server on the remote machine setup the arts daemon by typing 

artsd -n -u -p 5001

once the server is started change to the X display of the remote machine and type in 

export ARTS_SERVER=ipofcurrentsystem:5001

and then

xmms &

Voila you will have a complete remote desktop including sound just like in windows xp.