Remote Desktop visual GUI between two remote Linux computers?

All the answers I've read seem to relate to connecting Linux to Windows or Windows to Linux or Linux to Linux just using a terminal.

I want to remotely connect to my Dads Linux Mint machine who lives the other side of the country from my Linux Mint machine using a visual display like what I have on my machine. So, Linux to Linux visually.

Both systems go via a Broadband router.

So, can anyone suggest how I achieve a GUI based visual display between the two Linux machines? Like you can do using Remote Desktop on two Windows computers?

Solution 1:

You can use VNC with a GUI application (via SSH tunnelling):

• Setting up VNC on Mint
• Using Remmina with VNC

If you're looking for a Windows-like multi-user remote desktop experience, you can use NX over SSH:

• Installing FreeNX on Ubuntu (also applies to Mint)

Solution 2:

A couple of options I can think of. Chrome web browser has a desktop sharing app which will allow you to access remote computers easily. The other one is Teamviewer.

I have used both and can recommend them. They both work Linux to linux and also across platform.

Chrome Remote desktop

Teamviewer