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  id="share-desktop">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#advanced"/>
    <desc>
      Show your desktop to your contacts.
    </desc>
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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    
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  </info>

  <title>Share your desktop</title>

  <p>
    It is possible to share your desktop with some of your contacts. You can
    use this functionality to show your desktop to your contacts to, for
    example, ask for help or help your contacts resolve a problem.
  </p>

  <note style="tip">
    <p>
      To be able to share your desktop, you need to have a VNC server, which
      has support for the feature, installed on your system. <app>Vino</app>,
      the GNOME VNC server, has the required support.
    </p>
  </note>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>
        From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, do one of the following:
      </p>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
            Select the contact you want to share your desktop with and choose
            <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Contact</gui>
        <gui>Share My Desktop</gui></guiseq>.
          </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            Right-click on the name of the contact you want to share your
        desktop with and select <gui>Share My Desktop</gui>.
          </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
    An invitation to view your desktop will be sent to the contact you have
    selected. To view your desktop, they will need to accept it.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        You can disconnect the contact from your computer using your desktop
    sharing application.
      </p>
      <note>
        <p>
      For more information about how to use the remote desktop sharing
      application, refer to its help.
        </p>
      </note>
    </item>
  </steps>

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

  <note>
    <p>
      Some of your contacts may not be able to use this feature. It is
      necessary for them to have version 2.28, or newer, of <app>Empathy</app>
      and a compatible remote desktop viewer application installed in their
      system.
    </p>
  </note>

</page>