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Looking for a multi-user remote desktop system (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all! I'm looking for a remote desktop control system that works in Ubuntu. Something like VNC, but that allows for more than one user to remotely see and control the screen of this Ubuntu Desktop at the same time. I've been looking around for a while now, but all the solutions I've found only allow for one user at a given time. If a second user logs in, the first one is kicked out. I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I'd really appreciate any help pointing me in the right direction. Thanks!

Edit: What I'm looking for is something like https://tuple.app/, but open source.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

BeyondTrust and SimpleHelp both support this functionality. You can invite a second technician to join the session. I suspect all they're really doing is opening up a second session at the same time, but the end result is that you can have two people remotely controlling a single computer.

But those are both "tech support" focused tools, so I don't know if they quite fit your use case. Parsec is another option that specifically advertises collaborative work like pair programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA21BnUsBJI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Parsec is windows only with a non-hardware accelerated Linux client, moonlight+sunshine will work though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for your suggestions! All look like viable solutions, but I'm looking for open-source alternatives to those :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oops, didn't notice which community we were in 😂