RealVNC Introduces VNC Wayland Developer Preview

[johnc]

lightdm still does it. Here's a snippet of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf for a debian setup:

Is there a way to do it without VNC? I'd prefer to just use X if possible.

[paintbynumbers]

Is there any interest by DEs with their own compositors to implement remote capabilities in them (vnc rdp whatever)?

I would love if a CLI utility would let you select a program to forward that was running the shell somehow and let you forward/launch programs like you do today with X11.

$ xdg-remote --list-all
Available clients are:
1.desktop [full desktop]
2.firefox [Google - Mozilla Firefox]
3.terminator [/bin/bash]
4.xterm [xterm]

$ xdg-remote forward 2
Forwarding 2.firefox [Google - Mozilla Firefox]...

$ xdg-remote gnome-calculator
Launching and forwarding gnome-calculator...

$ xdg-remote --attach-to-desktop 1 sublime_text
Launching and forwarding gnome-calculator...
NOTICE: Program will continuing running on disconnect.

$ xdg-remote --list-all
Available clients are:
1.desktop [full desktop]
2.firefox [Google - Mozilla Firefox] (forwarding)
3.terminator [/bin/bash]
4.xterm [xterm] (forwarding)
5.gnome-calculator [Calculator] (forwarding) (transient)
6.sublime_text [~/file.txt] (forwarding)

[MartinN]

If it ain't free open source software, then they can shove it up where the sun don't shine.

You do know there is no such thing as "free" anything, right?

[LLStarks]

Is Wayland VNC going to be higher-quality than X VNC?

[schmidtbag]

Is Wayland VNC going to be higher-quality than X VNC?

X VNC is almost seamless quality. It all depends on the server settings and client settings. But if the server's settings are for low-bandwidth, it doesn't matter how high the client settings are.

[vadix]

I would love if a CLI utility would let you select a program to forward that was running the shell somehow and let you forward/launch programs like you do today with X11.

$ xdg-remote --list-all
Available clients are:
1.desktop [full desktop]
2.firefox [Google - Mozilla Firefox]
3.terminator [/bin/bash]
4.xterm [xterm]

$ xdg-remote forward 2
Forwarding 2.firefox [Google - Mozilla Firefox]...

$ xdg-remote gnome-calculator
Launching and forwarding gnome-calculator...

$ xdg-remote --attach-to-desktop 1 sublime_text
Launching and forwarding gnome-calculator...
NOTICE: Program will continuing running on disconnect.

$ xdg-remote --list-all
Available clients are:
1.desktop [full desktop]
2.firefox [Google - Mozilla Firefox] (forwarding)
3.terminator [/bin/bash]
4.xterm [xterm] (forwarding)
5.gnome-calculator [Calculator] (forwarding) (transient)
6.sublime_text [~/file.txt] (forwarding)

If you had a wayland compositor that acted as an X client and could connect to an X server, you could potentially do this. Ideally, one would develop a special protocol that is much more suitable for wayland, and that would be much faster than X (which I have found to be horrendously slow over networks).

[89c51]

If you had a wayland compositor that acted as an X client and could connect to an X server, you could potentially do this. Ideally, one would develop a special protocol that is much more suitable for wayland, and that would be much faster than X (which I have found to be horrendously slow over networks).

Isn't RDP and whatever protocol VNC uses good enough for todays needs.

[vadix]

Isn't RDP and whatever protocol VNC uses good enough for todays needs.

I guess VNC would work if the compositor created a server hosting one window, now that I think about it.

[erendorn]

I guess VNC would work if the compositor created a server hosting one window, now that I think about it.

probably need to adapt the client so that it moves/minimize the local window on the local desktop when you move/minimize the remote one.