There's a couple of possibilities, VNC (slower than smoking death!) ssh, and some that run on the remote desktop protocol like XRDP.
Putty & XMing
If you're a Winer, you'll need putty for ssh'ing and a X server, i use XMing. And you'll need to prepare your box if you run Linuxmint Desktop edition.# sudo aptitude install openssh-server
Then you'll have to allow your remote machine to connect to your box:
# sudo emacs /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Remove the # comment sign from: ForwardX11 no. Then change no to yes so it looks like this:
ForwardX11 yes
Save and exit. Next you'll have to add you remote machine name to the xhost by:
#xhost +<your ip or machine.domain>
Next you'll have to check that the .Xauthority file in your home folder is owned by your user (mine wasent?)
# ls -l ~/.Xauthority
-rw------- 1 user user 181 Mar 25 13:35 .Xauthority
If not you should chown it ro your user:
# sudo chown user ~/.Xauthority
You'll now be able to remote connect to your box from any machine with a running x server. Simply start the XServer on your client machine, login via ssh and run the program. In putty you'll have to forward X11 packages, there's a setting called just that.
VNC
To use VNC you'll have to install a VNC server on your box, i.e or X11vnc# sudo aptitude install tightvncserver
or
# sudo aptitude install x11vnc
The difference is that tightvncserver will serve a new session. x11vnc will allow access to an existing session. That may be what you'll need if you have a running session on your work box. If you use x11vnc you might want to set a password.
XRDP
Install XRDP and run the deamon.#sudo aptitude install xrdp
You connect to it by using the Windows remote desktop connection utility. You'll get a new screen, so this utility can't steal your current x session.
