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sharing-desktop.page @run/b8c401b8-1686-4db4-8966-584f1f6d49c2/main — raw · history · blame
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 | <page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:if="http://projectmallard.org/if/1.0/" xmlns:ui="http://projectmallard.org/ui/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" type="topic" style="task" version="1.0 if/1.0" id="sharing-desktop"> <info> <link type="guide" xref="sharing"/> <link type="guide" xref="prefs-sharing"/> <revision pkgversion="3.33.3" date="2019-07-21" status="review"/> <revision version="gnome:42" status="final" date="2022-04-09"/> <credit type="author"> <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name> <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email> </credit> <credit type="editor"> <name>Michael Hill</name> <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email> </credit> <credit type="author"> <name>Jim Campbell</name> <email>jcampbell@gnome.org</email> </credit> <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> <desc>Let other people view and interact with your desktop using VNC.</desc> </info> <title>Share your desktop</title> <comment> <cite date="2022-07-27">Andre Klapper</cite> <p>GNOME 42 moved from VNC to RDP in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/1205</p> <p>TODO: See also https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-user-docs/-/issues/135</p> </comment> <comment> <cite date="2022-04-09">Michael Hill</cite> <p>Referencing Pascal Nowack's comments on #135 (above) and the RDP setup guide, https://gitlab.gnome.org/-/snippets/1778, particularly his comment of 2022-02-26.</p> <p>TODO: Add Connections, the GNOME client, to the Connecting: Linux section when it's ready for RDP.</p> </comment> <p>You can let other people view and control your desktop from another computer with a desktop viewing application. Configure <gui>Remote Desktop</gui> to allow others to access your desktop and set the security preferences.</p> <note style="info package"> <p>You must have the <app>GNOME Remote Desktop</app> package installed for <gui>Remote Desktop</gui> to be visible.</p> <if:choose xmlns:if="http://projectmallard.org/if/1.0/"> <if:when test="action:install"> <p><link action="install:gnome-remote-desktop" style="button">Install GNOME Remote Desktop</link></p> </if:when> </if:choose> </note> <steps> <item> <p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> overview and start typing <gui>Sharing</gui>.</p> </item> <item> <p>Click on <gui>Sharing</gui> to open the panel.</p> </item> <item> <p>If the <gui>Sharing</gui> switch in the top-right of the window is set to off, click to switch it on.</p> <note style="info"><p>If the text below <gui>Computer Name</gui> allows you to edit it, you can <link xref="sharing-displayname">change</link> the name your computer displays on the network.</p></note> </item> <item> <p>Click <gui>Remote Desktop</gui>.</p> </item> <item> <p>To let others view your desktop, set the <gui>Remote Desktop</gui> switch to on. This means that other people will be able to attempt to connect to your computer and view what’s on your screen.</p> </item> <item> <p>To let others interact with your desktop, set the <gui>Remote Control</gui> switch to on. This may allow the other person to move your mouse, run applications, and browse files on your computer, depending on the security settings which you are currently using.</p> </item> </steps> <section id="security"> <title>Security</title> <p>The <gui>Authentication</gui> section displays the login credentials to be used in the client software on the connecting device.</p> <terms> <item> <title>User Name</title> <p>Use the suggested value or enter your own.</p> </item> <item> <title>Password</title> <p>Use the suggested value or enter your own.</p> <note style="tip"> <p>Click the button next to each entry if you want to place it in the clipboard.</p> </note> </item> <item> <title>Verify Encryption</title> <p>Click the <gui>Verify Encryption</gui> button to display the encryption fingerprint. Compare it with the value displayed by the client when connecting: they should be identical.</p> </item> <!-- TODO: check whether this option exists. <item> <title>Allow access to your desktop over the Internet</title> <p>If your router supports UPnP Internet Gateway Device Protocol and it is enabled, you can allow other people who are not on your local network to view your desktop. To allow this, select <gui>Automatically configure UPnP router to open and forward ports</gui>. Alternatively, you can configure your router manually.</p> <note style="tip"> <p>This option is disabled by default.</p> </note> </item> --> </terms> </section> <section id="connecting"> <title>Connecting</title> <p>The <gui>How to Connect</gui> section displays the <gui>Device Name</gui> and <gui>Remote Desktop Address</gui> that can be used on the connecting computer. Click the button next to each entry if you want to place it in the clipboard. A connection can also be made using your <link xref="net-findip">IP address</link>.</p> <p>When the other computer is successfully connected to your desktop, you will see the <gui>Screen is being shared</gui> icon, <media its:translate="no" type="image" src="figures/topbar-screen-shared.svg" style="floatend"/> in your system status area.</p> </section> <section id="clients"> <title>Clients</title> <p>To connect to your desktop from another computer, the following clients are known to work.</p> <terms> <item> <title>From Linux:</title> <list> <item><p><app>Remmina</app>, a GTK client, is available as a package in most distributions, and also as a <link href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.remmina.Remmina">flatpak</link>. Use default settings, particularly <gui>Color depth</gui> 'Automatic' in the connection profile settings.</p> </item> <item><p><app>xfreerdp</app> is a command line client available as a package in most distributions. The option <cmd>/network:auto</cmd> should be passed to the client on the command line.</p> </item> </list> </item> <item> <title>From Microsoft Windows:</title> <list> <item><p><app>mstsc</app> is the built-in Windows client. Default settings are recommended.</p> </item> </list> </item> <item> <title>From Linux, Windows, or macOS:</title> <list> <item><p><app>Thincast</app> is a proprietary client. The Linux version is available as a <link href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.thincast.client">flatpak</link>. Default settings are recommended.</p> </item> </list> </item> </terms> </section> <section id="disconnect"> <title>Stop sharing your desktop</title> <p>To disconnect someone who is viewing your desktop:</p> <steps> <item> <p>Click the system menu on the right side of the top bar.</p> </item> <item> <p>Click <gui>Screen is being shared</gui>.</p> </item> <item> <p>Click <gui>Turn off</gui>.</p> </item> </steps> </section> <section id="advanced" ui:expanded="false"> <title>Advanced Topics</title> <terms> <item> <title>Command line configuration</title> <p>The <cmd>grdctl</cmd> utility allows you to configure your host settings in a console window. For usage details, type <cmd>grdctl --help</cmd>.</p> </item> <item> <title>H.264</title> <p>H.264 video encoding heavily reduces bandwidth. <app>GNOME Remote Desktop</app> will use H.264 when: the graphics pipeline is used (a requirement of the protocol), the client supports it, and NVENC (NVIDIA's encoder) is available.</p> </item> </terms> </section> </page> |