Sugestion: add desktop sharing feature

[HotDrive69]

I use Cockpit for almost everything in my systems. Stopped using Putty because Cockpit has its own terminal. But, sometimes, I really need to access the desktop. It would be great if Cockpit had some feature for desktop sharing, like built in VNC.

[garrett]

Cockpit already has sharing of VNC and SPICE for VMs.

Here's the Red Hat docs on how to access this from within Cockpit: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_hyperconverged_infrastructure_for_virtualization/1.5/html/managing_virtual_machines_using_cockpit/assembly-managing-vms-using-cockpit#task-cockpit-ovirt-machines-machine-accessing_vm (While it's Red Hat docs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it should be consistent across distros.)

As Cockpit is intended for servers, it doesn't have the capability to configure desktop sharing for the host system, however.

You can, however, set up TigerVNC as a systemd service that can be managed (start/stop/restart) from Cockpit's services page. Here's how to set up TigerVNC on Fedora, for example: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/system-administrators-guide/infrastructure-services/TigerVNC/ (It's probably similar on CentOS, but different on Ubuntu. I'm sure there are guides for the various distros, depending on what you're doing.)

And, since you mentiond Putty, which is a Windows SSH client, it's probably noteworthy that you can also set up RDP on Linux using xrdp. (The service can be started/stopped/restarted in Cockpit's services page too, of course.)

I hope this helps!

[HotDrive69]

Thanks Garrett, sure does.