Allow for remote desktop connections?

[chrisjsewell]

Along the lines of https://datawookie.netlify.app/blog/2017/08/remote-desktop-on-an-ubuntu-ec2-instance/, which looks to require some additional packages be installed then opening port 3389 in the instance.
I tried connecting to this on my mac, trying to link to an AWS instance, but have thus far not been able to get it to work.

See also https://superuser.com/questions/253044/remote-desktop-from-mac-to-ubuntu/253045

[ltalirz]

just to mention - as of now, the Cloud Edition does not include the ubuntu desktop.
we should decide whether desktop access is something we want to support for the Cloud Edition as well

mentioning @giovannipizzi for comment

[giovannipizzi]

What do you define exactly with ubuntu desktop? Probably we don't need a windows manager (?), but having graphical software the can be run over SSH X tunnelling is in some cases very useful.

[ltalirz]

What do you define exactly with ubuntu desktop?

This: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/ubuntu-desktop

Probably we don't need a windows manager (?), but having graphical software the can be run over SSH X tunnelling is in some cases very useful.

Well, so far we haven't needed it (jupyter notebooks work fine without it)... of course one can add it if we have a specific use case