GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors

Another feature tacked onto the big GNOME 40 desktop update is a headless native back-end for Mutter and the ability to easily create virtual monitors...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...adless-Virtual

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Hopefully something similar to TigerVNC XDMCP mode will be implemented natively for Wayland someday. But anyway, I grateful for proper XDMCP support in gdm3, because with SDDM and LightDM it doesn't work.

[ChristianSchaller]

Actually main motivation for writing this was for people wanting to run a desktop on headless systems like servers, where they connect remotely to a desktop to run diagnosis etc.

[EvilHowl]

Actually main motivation for writing this was for people wanting to run a desktop on headless systems like servers, where they connect remotely to a desktop to run diagnosis etc.

That's indeed a great idea. As it's on demand, it wouldn't take system resources unless it's being used. Brilliant.

[ferry]

That's indeed a great idea. As it's on demand, it wouldn't take system resources unless it's being used. Brilliant.

Actually it's a very old idea. 30 years ago it was normal to have like 4 X clients to a server using XDMCP. And even now I regularly ssh -X to our server to run synaptics.

So, yes brilliant - and about time. Now if Kde would have something similar, that would be even more brilliant.

[kowalski7cc]

It could bring session-based remote desktops, something similar to RDP, a thing more similar to Terminal servers where you could sign-in and connect to a session and not just use an unlocked and logged-in screen with VNC (And this in GNOME still has many issues).

[angrypie]

SMP exists since the 60s and 64-bit computing since the 70s. The point is the implementation.

[furtadopires]

Does this mean that we could use it like xrdp but with wayland?

[polarathene]

Hopefully kwin does something similar. It'd allow the virtual desktops feature to actually switch single displays instead of affecting both right?

Additionally it's a neat feature for VM stuff using VFIO where the GPU passthrough doesn't require dummy plugs (in display outputs to trigger them as if connected to a display), which are a bit limited in resolution and refresh rate support last I tried. Getting that over PipeWire to the host system would be sweet

[mb_q]

WayVNC already works nicely, but you need sway or other wlroots WM.

https://github.com/any1/wayvnc