How to enable desktop sharing in Xfce on PeppermintOS?

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Hello Friends:

For PeppermintOS based on Debian 11 for 32 bits - the DE is xfce

Where in PeppermintOS is expected to enable Desktop Sharing? It to let me access it through Remmina as client for example. I can do this in Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian.

For a better understanding pls see the following pictures shown as follows:

Just as an observation, for the many mentioned OS where is possible accomplish the Desktop Sharing, all of them work through gnome

Thus I am not sure if is possible do it through xfce. Perhaps would be need it install something else

Thank You

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It is possible to install some gnome packages under xfce.
After all they are both GTK based.
I think you need to identify the appropriate gnome package. Then just install it… it will drag in any dependencies it needs.

For example, I have installed Gnome Disk under other DE’s

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Thanks for the reply

It is possible to install some gnome packages under xfce.
After all they are both GTK based.

Interesting I thought each DE was totally isolated among the others

I think you need to identify the appropriate gnome package. Then just install it… it will drag in any dependencies it needs.

Is there a command to execute to get a list all the packages of gnomes and let me do search through it to find the “special” package?

For example, I have installed Gnome Disk under other DE’s

Is it about the tool to show the state of the HD/SSD right? if it is OK or not, right?

Thanks

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Right, but more than that. It shows all the partitions and can edit them like gparted, only not as good as gparted in my opinion.

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Is there a command to execute to get a list all the packages of gnomes
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I can only think of
apt-cache search gnome
or apt-cache search remote

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Right, but more than that. It shows all the partitions and can edit them like gparted, only not as good as gparted in my opinion.

Yes, GParted is really valuable

I can only think of
apt-cache search gnome
or apt-cache search remote

Thanks, I am going to test them tomorrow

Thank You

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I think you need to install “xrdp” perhaps? I think that also installs vnc (server)…

What you’re looking for is :

  • vnc(server)
  • xrdp

I recall I used to run xrdp on Debian Jessie (with XFCE) - and I’m pretty sure :

sudo apt-get install xrdp

also installed VNC server… Don’t ask me how to setup VNC server and/or XRDP - I haven’t used it for nearly 10 years now… i.e. “xrdp” makes it seem like its running Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol, but it’s not really - it uses VNC server backend…

Another thing that found worked reasonably well was “NoMachine”… it actually had armhf (i.e. 32 bit arm like PiZero) installers… i.e. you install the “NoMachine” agent on the remote desktop machine you want to connect to - and you install the “NoMachine” client on your controlling machine…

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@Manuel_Jordan
This may help

I think @daniel.m.tripp is right… you dont need to search.

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I use NoMachine quite a bit. It has worked well for me. On one VM recently it seemed like it used more CPU than I had assumed. The performance is good though.

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I haven’t used NoMachine for some 10 years or so - but when I did it was XFCE at the other end and it was running on an ARM single core, under 1 Ghz with only 512 MB of RAM (NexThing C.H.I.P.) and I didn’t really notice any significant CPU bottleneck…

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