Comments on: How to Install TightVNC to Access Remote Desktops in Linux

By: geek

geek — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:44:09 +0000

This article really saved me! I was struggling for a while with setting up remote desktop access via VNC on my Linux machine, and nothing seemed to work. But after following these steps for installing TightVNC, everything fell into place smoothly.

The clarity in the guide made it super easy to follow through, and the extra details about configuring the desktop environment were just what I needed.

Appreciate this article, Ravi! It’s been incredibly useful, and I’ll definitely be using this approach in the future.

Keep it up!

By: Manny

Manny — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:22:06 +0000

This is not accurate. TightVNC != TigerVNC. TigerVNC is a fork of TightVNC from 2009. Now, TigerVNC has a different feature set than TightVNC. For instance, TigerVNC has encryption & TightVNC has file transfers. Different configurations also.

By: le_berger_des_photons

le_berger_des_photons — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:09:25 +0000

Why wouldn’t you create an icon on the desktop and/or an entry in the list of programs to be able to click on and the vnc client starts to run and asks for the address of the machine you want to control?

I installed it and don’t see that and I don’t know why. It seems the developers really don’t want people to use it.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:55:22 +0000

In reply to Rahul P.S.

@Rahul,

Sorry for delay, you will see updated article with instructions tomorrow morning without fail..

By: Rahul P.S

Rahul P.S — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:01:05 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive.

any updates on this?