I've never heard of anything like that. Tall order... maybe put in a request to a current FOSS RD dev.
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BeyondTrust and SimpleHelp both support this functionality. You can invite a second technician to join the session. I suspect all they're really doing is opening up a second session at the same time, but the end result is that you can have two people remotely controlling a single computer.
But those are both "tech support" focused tools, so I don't know if they quite fit your use case. Parsec is another option that specifically advertises collaborative work like pair programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA21BnUsBJI
Parsec is windows only with a non-hardware accelerated Linux client, moonlight+sunshine will work though
Thanks for your suggestions! All look like viable solutions, but I'm looking for open-source alternatives to those :)
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Hum, what's the use case exactly? Two or more people controlling the same desktop at the same time seems really frustrating...
The use case would be pair programming. Only one of the users would control the desktop at a given time, and the second would be mostly watching and pointing out things. After a while, the roles of programmer and observer could switch and the second user could take control.
I'd look into tools built for that purpose. For example, vscode's live share feature. Other IDEs have similar features.
Have used it, it works well
I think they might be thinking of something like thin clients, if I were to guess, and a server they would connect to. But yes good call out for the XY problem.
Connecting multiple users to Ubuntu is probably pretty difficult. Setting up a server for thin clients is pretty easy
Games, combining inputs from multiple devices, and low interaction frequency things like monitoring software are a couple ive used it for personally