remote desktop control

[panchoponchos]

I would like to activate remote desktop to access from ubuntu to sparky. I installed vnc4server and tightvncserver but I cannot access to my computer yet... could you give me some hint on how to doing it? I think it should be easy but I already have spend hours on it and I cannot find documentation on sparky to do that... thanks.

[paxmark1]

If it has been hours and still no luck, you could try "ssh -X  user@192.168........   ".

It has to be a capitol X

Then type in a program, such as geany and you have one gui program running.

It is not as powerful or elegant, but is what I occasionally use between two linux machines on a home network.  I have not learned vnc. 
peace out

Note - I checked back in. 

"apt-cache show xtightvncviewer"

https://wiki.debian.org/VNCviewer?action=show&redirect=VNC

It appears that you may have installed two vnc Servers.  Possibly the combination of xtightvncviewer and tightvncserver would work.  Or conversely - a viewer for vnc4server - however vnc4server appears to only have binaries for sid and stable.
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xvnc4viewer
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=vnc4server

This is the time close to freeze when programs with rc bugs are started to be weeded out.  A quick look at the change logs on the Debian package site is always a clue as to how well supported a program is.