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by any1 9 hours ago
As the author of wayvnc, I would say that I'm pretty well aware of what VNC can and cannot do. The RFB protocol (VNC) has improved over time like other protocols.

1. Wrong. There are many extensions that improve upon authentication and encryption.

2. This mostly depends on the implementation, and not necessarily the protocol and/or its extensions.

3. This would require deep integration with the window system on both sides, so I doubt that this is even a thing with RFB on Linux. There certainly aren't any wayland protocols to do this.

4. No one has ever asked me to implement any of that with the exception of audio, but there is also an extension for that.

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Extensions extensions extensions...

> There certainly aren't any wayland protocols to do [seamless windows]

I think wprs can do this (it calls it "rootless") but I haven't actually got around to trying it yet.