ThinLinc Overview and Tutorial - How to Install and Utilize this Linux Remote Desktop Solution

Recently, I decided to check out ThinLinc - a remote desktop solution for Linux. With client apps for Linux, macOS and Windows - it's easy to set up and configure. In this tutorial, I'll give you an overview of the solution and walk you through the process of setting it up. Please note that this is a tutorial, and NOT a review.

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-- Individual Sections --
00:00 - Intro
00:23 - Brief summary of ThinLinc and the goal that it solves
02:15 - An overview of the ThinLinc client, connection options, and connecting to a server
06:12 - Example of connecting to an Ubuntu desktop install via ThinLinc
07:54 - How does licensing work with ThinLinc?
09:08 - Installing ThinLinc on a Linux Server
15:15 - Installing the ThinLinc client (on a Linux workstation)
20:24 - Installing the ThinLinc client (on a Linux workstation using the tarball method)
23:06 - Installing the ThinLinc client (on a Windows workstation)
24:01 - Installing the ThinLinc client (on a Mac)
25:42 - Setting up a terminal server to use with ThinLinc

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[Rickety]

Interesting. I've been using NoMachine because it's free for non-commercial use, has very little lag and is cross platform. Love it

[liquidmobius]

I bought your Ubuntu server book the other day, love it! Definitely what I needed to study for sysadmin. Thanx 🤙

[AliensInc.]

Finally someone recognize this app.
superb thing, used it for years.
Tiny and fast

[mse]

Really great video. If running this as a daily solution. Remember to check and change PolKit policies so allow_any session get the same values as allow_active session. Otherwise authentication windows will bore you to tears when for example using software updates and Flatpak installations in the virtual desktop. You get the job done, but you need to athenticate between 3 - 15 times dependent on the installation package.

[ArniesTech]

A great solution and as always well presented. Thank you, Jay 💪

[LaurensAutoSalvage]

I installed the server component on a Linux Mint machine and the client on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine. When I started the client the connection box was so small I couldn't read it. I literally had to get within 6" of the monitor to read it. So I put the IP, user, and password only for it to take me to a "start" page that, again, was so small I couldn't read it. After getting up close to the monitor, I clicked the "start" button and the window closed. Yeah, GREAT product. Now I get to figure out how to uninstall it! Your video was fantastic and made the product look first class, but in reality, well not so much.

[KriGeta]

I am using Tensordock and I am trying to connect Thinlinc using the SSH key but am not able to, how can I do that? I need a GUI over the SSH only provided by the Tensordock

[deanballito]

Thanks, Jay you're a wealth of knowledge and we all deeply appreciate your efforts and passion.

[jacksonsystemslimited]

Cool product, pricing is A bit steep especially when you have things like X2Go availble! WOuld be interested to see the differences.

[jocelynmedina]

This is really great . Ive always wanted to configure something' like this . thanks for Sharing this

[ToKiBitch]

THX Jay for your awesome Content. I Just love your videos, and i´m looking forward for some more videos from you!

Keep up ! 😀

[mlongval]

As usual your video is truly clear and helpful. Thank you very much.

[WRa]

Iv'e been using tigervnc over openvpn (for encryption, and access to the local network) to remote into computers i need access to. Using the LXQT desktop and some tweaks to openvpn for speed. Yes i know its probably overkill, but it is entirely within my control, no 3rd parties needed. NOTE: most vnc solutions are NOT encrypted by default. If you use a vnc solution, please enable encryption.

[BGUK]

Around 17:54 .. it's also in the AUR, just checked. ☺

[BoDiddly]

I prefer the KDE Plasma Desktop, also lightweight and highly configurable!

[fahu]

Thank you for bringing this up! I was using xrdp to connect to my Fedora system from my Windows 10 machine. It is very easy to install and the logon process is fast. But: The session has a very ugly lag and moving stuff in the session around is not going smoothly, which is very annoying. So I hoped ThinLic is a better solution. The answer is: Yes! But: The installation and configuration was not as easy as you showed. At first, the annoying welcome screen should be disabled in the webadmin page under Profiles - Introduction Texts (disable "Yes, show introduction"). Then, I was not able to establish a connection, because even though I am using a KDE Plasma desktop, it is not recognized by ThinLic. I always received an error message that said "no executable profiles could be found". The solution was to open the file, go to the [/profiles/kde] section and adding plasmax11 to xdg_session entry. After that, it looks like this:

xdg_session=kde kde-plasma plasma kde4 1-kde-plasma-standard plasmax11

It took a while to figure that out, but now it runs fine.

[BandanazX]

Another half-baked remote desktop for Linux.
I need to be able to access my Linux system's locked local desktop session remotely, with all my applications that are currently running. (No logoff, no terminal server)
RDP on Windows does this wonderfully, but somehow after 20+ years no equivalent solution exists on Linux.

[jdphotograph]

You said you can use it over the internet but did not show if you need to open ports or do port forwarding to connect from outside.

[taylorshin]

This could be a bit redundant question for this video but... Would it be worth it to switch from RealVNC to Thinlinc? I have the free home subscription that support up to 5 machines for RealVNC. But if Thinlinc is faster, then no reason to not to jump.

[mustafababdullah]

Jay something I found out why many new wifi cards are suddenly not working is the hashtags are not matching! The one that does work is Intel! Throwing away a card is not a good idea! It may work in another machine such as I switched cards where neither worked and I run Arch, so I have options to it use aur also!