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by donmcronald 999 days ago
> exposing a KDE Plasma Wayland session

Does that mean I'll need to start a session locally before I can connect via RDP or will it be like Windows RDP where it starts a session on-demand?

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To me the more important point would be if it can connect to an existing session (like Windows can). AFAIK XRDP on all current major linux distros only work with X11 (not Wayland) and if you try to log in using an account that is already logged in locally, you get a black screen.

IIRC Gnome recently launched something the opposite, where you can only share the screen of an already logged-in session (but it does work with Wayland, but only on Gnome).

A built-in KDE Plasma RDP implementation would be a game-changer, especially if it worked with Wayland (I assume it will) and even more so if it could connect to both existing logged-in sessions and start a new session on demand, like Windows does out of the box.

Currently it seems to be intended for sharing a physical screen only