How To: Remote desktop into Raspberry Pi

Step 1:

First of all you need to install a vnc server on your raspberry pi, i chose tightvncserver to do this open LXTerminal and type in the following:

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

Once installed run:
 sudo tightvncserver 

You will then be prompted to enter a password of your choice, once this is done you can install a vnc client on your other machine (RealVNC) and access the pi by entering the IP address of your pi followed by :1 for example:

 192.168.1.9:1 

For more information on tightvncserver see here
Download RealVNC viewer here