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Enable Gnome Screen Sharing via Commandline?

So I did it after poking at it for a couple of hours. Your instructions are correct. However, GNOME won't allow a VNC connection if your screen is locked. So, using loginctl list-sessions you can list ...
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PulseAudio as remote source *and* sink?

Yes, you can (this is an example of something you can do): How can I use PulseAudio to share a single LINE-IN/MIC jack on the entire LAN? On the sender side simply load the RTP sender module: load-...
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I can't connect to x11vnc from different network

While your laptop and desktop are in the same network they have IP addresses in the same subnet, for example 192.168.1.0/24. They can communicate directly with each other. As soon as you move the ...
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I can't connect to x11vnc from different network

192.168.x.x is a private address. This means it is only accessible from within your internal network. In order to connect from an external network, you will need to grab the external address of your ...
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Monitor a burst of events with inotifywait

OP here. A possible solution hack could be similar to inotifywait -m "$dir" -e moved_to --timefmt='%s' --format '%T' | stdbuf -oL uniq | ... EDIT: See my other answer to this question, since the ...
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Monitor a burst of events with inotifywait

Drawing on your own answer, if you want to use the shell read you could take advantage of the -t timeout option, which sets the return code to >128 if there is a timeout. Eg your burst script can ...
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Monitor a burst of events with inotifywait

Op here. The solution I came out with: it is a script named burst: inotifywait -e moved_to "$monitored_dir" -m \ | burst 2 'echo run post-upload' The burst script: #!/bin/bash help() { >...
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Is it possible to remote control/screen share a specific virtual tty on KDE Plasma Wayland?

I don't think that "logging in locally, then letting someone else take over the local seat and then loggingin remotely" will work out; too many things would need to "bend over" to ...
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Controlling other Linux desktops from a central one

Yes that's possible; it's very standard. Actually, the usual Linux way of working makes it easy. So, first of all, on Linux, all administrative things are usually done using the command line. So, you ...
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Remote script for multiple machines

I can recommend Ansible about that. With Ansible developed by Redhat, you can send and configure commands to multiple servers from one place. I can also recommend Terraform. Many practices about both ...
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Enable Gnome Screen Sharing via Commandline?

I've cleaned up and forked a script this works on ubuntu 22.04 with wayland disabled. https://gist.github.com/Pieter81/78a3a087f142d712951f8352bb9ab2ba
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Remote Mouse netcat (/dev/input/mice)

I wrote a more detailed answer to essentially the same question there, but the main idea is: Client: nc -l -p 4567 | uinput Server: intercept -g /dev/input/by-id/usb-My-mouse-name | nc 10.1.2.3 4567 ...
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