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Enable desktop sharing on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

1. In the Ubuntu Dash or Linux Mint menu, search for desktop sharing like the screenshot below, and when you find it, open it.

Search for Desktop sharing in Ubuntu

2. After opening Desktop sharing, there are three options for desktop sharing settings: sharing, security, and notification settings.

Under sharing options, select the option allow other users to view desktops to enable desktop sharing. In addition, you can select the option "allow other users to control your desktop" to allow other users to control your desktop remotely.

Desktop sharing preference

3. Next, in the "Security" section, you can manually confirm each remote connection by checking the option "you must confirm any access to this computer".

In addition, another useful security feature is to create a certain shared password with the option "require user to enter a password". In this way, users need to know and enter their password every time they want to access your desktop.

4. For notifications, you can check "only when someone is connected" to monitor remote connections, so that every time someone connects remotely to your desktop, you can view them in the notification area.

Configure Desktop sharing Settings

When all desktop sharing options are set, click "close". Now you have successfully enabled desktop sharing on your Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

Test remote Desktop sharing for Ubuntu

You can test it by using a remotely connected application to ensure that desktop sharing is available. In this example, I will show how some of the options set above work.

5. I will use the VNC (Virtual Network Computing) protocol to connect to my Ubuntu PC through the remmina remote connection application.

Remmina Desktop sharing tool

6. After clicking Ubuntu PC, the following interface for configuring connection settings will appear

Remmina Desktop sharing preferences

7. After all the settings have been executed, click Connect. Then, provide the user name with the SSH password and click OK.

Enter SSH user password

After clicking OK, the black screen below appears because on the remote machine, the connection has not been confirmed.

Black screen before connection confirmation

8. Now, on the remote machine, I need to click Allow as shown in the following screenshot to accept the remote access request.

Allow remote desktop sharing

9. After accepting the request, I successfully connected to the desktop of the remote Ubuntu machine.

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