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by naranha 938 days ago
Remote desktop is not quite there yet it feels. It's the only reason to still use X imho.
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m4rtink 938 days ago
This should be the replacement for most of the legacy X-based (like for example Toger VNC) remote desktop tools:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop https://www.mankier.com/1/grdctl

This is already available in Fedora in some capacity. Main focus seems to be on RDP, with some support for VNC as well.

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throw0101c 938 days ago
How well does 'X forwarding' ("Wayland forward"?) work?

A lot of time I don't want a remote "desktop", but rather just launch an app and have it sent over an SSH tunnel (-X/-Y).

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nolist_policy 938 days ago
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe
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naranha 937 days ago
Awesome, this might be just what I needed! I need to run vscode and it seems to be possible if you launch it with --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland . I'll play around with it the next days, thanks!
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rjmalagon 938 days ago
Thanks for this, almost forgot it. Works great on Fedora Workstation 39.

Wayland forwarding over SSH: done

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vetinari 938 days ago
RDP as a protocol does support remoting just apps (RAIL: Remote Application Integrated Locally, or RemoteApps).

However, for Wayland compositors, this is a distant future; right now, Mutter supports connecting to existing, already running session (desktop). Ability create a new session over RDP is in the works. Everything else is after that.

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pmontra 938 days ago
Last time I tried to use Wayland on my NVidia laptop it didn't work well, both with the proprietary driver and with Noveau. I can't remember the details and I have too many open apps to logout and try again now. I switched back to Xorg and forgot about it. It was January this year, Debian 11.
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NullPrefix 938 days ago
>NVidia laptop didn't work well on linux

closing as WONTFIX, everything working as expected

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pmontra 938 days ago
I know, but it works well with X11.
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nolist_policy 938 days ago
Software in Debian 11 is now 2 years old as far as features and bugfixes are concerned.
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Caligatio 938 days ago
I had weird flickering and micro screen freezes with my 2070 on Arch using Wayland on my new desktop build 3 weeks ago. Switching to Xorg fixed everything.
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prmoustache 938 days ago
Xwayland will still be there so there will be way to remote desktop to xwayland.
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shmerl 938 days ago
freerdp has some integration with Gnome and KDE, but yeah, it's work in progress still.
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