Access your Desktop and Applications Remotely with X2Go – Ubuntu /Linux Mint

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In this tutorial, we are going to see how to install X2Go, an open source remote desktop solution for Linux platforms. The X2Go server must be installed on Ubuntu/Linux Mint or any other Linux-based platform; the client can be installed on any other platform (Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X).

You can install X2Go on the following Ubuntu/Linux Mint distros:

  • Ubuntu 15.04/14.10/14.04
  • Linux Mint 17.2 or older

X2GoServer Setup

For easier installation, you can install X2Go from PPA using these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable 

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common 

sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession x2goserver-printing

Install now the client on any other computer running Ubuntu/Linux Mint using this command:

sudo apt-get -y install x2goclient

You can then start X2Go client from Unity Dash and enter your connection details to connect to the other computer: