[kwlug-disc] Remoting into GNOME desktop

[Jeff Smith]

Some new news on this issue:

https://ctrl.blog/entry/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop
[https://ctrl.blog/wp-content/uploads/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop-sharing-1072x603.png]<https://ctrl.blog/entry/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop>

Remote desktop capabilities set to make a comeback in GNOME on Wayland<https://ctrl.blog/entry/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop>
ctrl.blog
Work on new Mutter APIs and Remote Desktop service enable screen recording and remote desktop in GNOME under Wayland.



It seems that a) I'm not losing my mind and GNOME/Wayland does not in fact currently have VNC baked in, and b) they are working on fixing that (the Wayland VNC thing, not my mental health).




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From: kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org> on behalf of Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
Sent: 18 August 2017 12:19
To: KWLUG discussion
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Remoting into GNOME desktop

There was a recent thread here in response to a similar question that
I asked.

I tried VNC, but it is very slow.

NoMachine worked fine. There are .deb packages that you install using
gdebi and they work seamlessly. Little network overhead and very
responsive.

On 8/18/17, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> With the upcoming changes to Ubuntu (GNOME and Wayland), and with the
> current similar state of Fedora and other distros, has anyone given any
> though as to how to remote into a system such as these and remotely
> controlled the desktop (similar to RDP, VNC, etc.)
>
> I'm trying to plan out how I can contact my machines once I upgrade the
> Ubuntu boxes, as well as the ones currently running Fedora 26.
>
> It seems that my current solution of VNC or X11VNC over SSH isn't going to
> work once they move from X to Wayland.  Sure, I could drop back to X, but I
> wanted to see how we can do this like it says in the brochure...
>
> From what I've seen so far, we're going to really rock the remote
> connectivity boat when we switch to Wayland, and the next version of Ubuntu
> is supposed to do just that.  As of right now, I am unable to bring up my
> personal laptop's Fedora 26 desktop remotely because I haven't been able to
> find a Wayland solution.
>
> Connecting to Ubuntu Unity desktops is easy with SSH and VNC (using
> TigerVNC in most cases).  But from what I understand, VNCserver (and its
> variants) does not support Wayland, only X.
>
> So what we need is:
>
> SSH tunnel (or a similarly secure GUI connection)
> a Wayland/GNOME ready GUI presentation.
> An "always-on" connection that doesn't depend on someone being logged on at
> the server end (for example, if I reboot the server remotely I still want
> to come back and see a GUI logon.  AFAIK you can't do this with Vino.)
>
> And of course, ways to achieve this using a client that's either Linux or
> Windows (for those of us forced to use Windows at work....)
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>


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