Fedora 23 KDE Desktop sharing

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Feb 10 20:22:54 UTC 2016


Gary Baribault wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
>     I've been running Fedore for years, and it used to be I could just
> walk the menus and share my desktop. That doesn't seem to work any more.
> I've googled until my fingers bled... I can get VNCServer up and running
> but when I access it from another machine I get a desktop but it's a new
> desktop. I want to access the existing desktop from another computer...
> 
> I know, it's dangerous, but my FW to the internet is a CentOS box with
> SSH and to get to my desktop you need to ssh to my FW with proper
> credentials, and forward a tunnel to my desktop and then log in there as
> well, so I'm comfortable with the security.
> 
> So, how do I set it up to share the existing desktop?

The easiest way (imo) is probably to install and run krfb

-- Rex



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