Share the desktop with your contacts.
Milo Casagrande
milo@ubuntu.com

# Share your desktop

It is possible, with some of your contacts, to share your desktop with them, or to start using your contacts desktop. You can use this functionality to show your desktop to your contacts, to ask for help or to help your contacts resolve a problem.

In order to be able to share your desktop or to remotely use your contacts desktop, it is necessary to have a remote desktop viewer application installed in your system.

From the Contact List window, perform one of the following:

Select the contact you want to share your desktop with, and choose Edit Contact Share my desktop.

Right-click on the name of the contact you want to share your desktop with, and select Share my desktop.

A request will be sent to the contact you want to share your desktop with. If they accept, the default remote desktop viewer application will be launched in order to permit you to disconnect the user that is controlling your desktop.

For more information about how to use the remote desktop viewer application, refer to its help.

When you share your desktop with someone else, it is possible to experience system performance slowdown and low Internet speed.

Not all your contacts might be able to support this functionality. It is necessary for them to have at least the 2.28 version of Empathy and a remote desktop viewer application installed in their system.