Hi I am a IT major and like to ask my linux friends some stuff about my ubuntu pi 2 running 15.10. Can I do a teamviewer remote desktop to my Pi to show the UI and figure things out too?
Sadly, it seems Teamviewer is a x86/x64 application only, meaning it won’t run on the Raspberry Pi 2 (armv7).
For similar remote control functionality, an alternate would be an application that uses the VNC protocol.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=98841
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I was on youtube and I saw this guys layout. I know its a little dated but I don’t have the “remote” thing in search. Is this possible? you said if has VNC protocol. This says its built in. Does Mate have this or do I need a line to copy in terminal to install this like G part needed to be added.
I think the shared desktop function is what i needed I think.
I believe vino is already pre-installed (VNC Server for GNOME - which presents the Desktop Sharing dialog) - you should be able to access this dialog by typing:
vino-preferences
But I don’t know if this works in Ubuntu MATE, I abandoned this program when switching from regular Ubuntu to Ubuntu MATE. It doesn’t seem to work any more. 
I found a discussion trying to achieve this functionality in Ubuntu MATE 14.10, there a few different packages you could use:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/desktop-sharing-remote-desktop-ubuntu-mate-14-10-a-4175544317/
Here’s a post by @sparticle, who has described one way to set up remote desktop sharing using x11vnc:
The instructions are for 15.04, but they should work in 15.10 for the Raspberry Pi.
There is a way to run Teamviewer on Raspberry Pi on Mate using Exagear Desktop, here is a simple instruction how to do that.