Here are my tips to help "fix it up again", hence writing this up "backwards" from getting diagnostic info to then setting up remote desktop. With Ubuntu 16.04 Remote Desktop Access was easy to get going "out of the box" but from 17 on it keeps getting broken in some way due to UI sub-systems changes. Get the same look and feel as if I was on local Ubuntu Desktop with a bog standard install (ie Gnome Desktop).Be able to access standard Ubuntu Gnome Desktop from MacOS (so need VNC).So like many things Linux you have an abundance of riches, but not simplicity. Remote display protocols like Microsofts RDP, VNC and X11.Rather there a number of alternate technical ways, using either: It is surprising that there is no simple standard "out of box" way to achieve this. But I still do and while I can get by with ssh and scripts for many things sometimes I need the Ubuntu GUI and this is mostly required to be be accessed remotely. So I should never need to access the Ubuntu Gnome Desktop ever again. I read the book, the blogs and the raves and rants and know I should automate all system admin activities with scripts, bits, hacks and band aids and control everything via SSH or HTTP/S. Who needs a GUI when you have a command line ? May 2021 - Broke it and fixed it (again) on Ubuntu 21.04, so writing up in anticipation of next time this breaks.Īugust 2022 - Update to include keyboard mapping fix (with left bracket & right bracket) & retested with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
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