The Arch wiki has a few links to follow. Adjust as needed for your preferred setup.
Looks like VNC backends for wayland compositors are generally a compile-time option, so if you run through the steps and nothing happens, it could be that support was not compiled in. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Remote_display As an amusing sidenote, not long ago I was embroiled in a wayland vs X flamewar where some fanboys went out of their way to claim that wayland is ready and has all the same features X does. So an instance of a real-world user attempting to perform an end-usery task on wayland and then reaching the conclusion that it is impossible makes me chuckle. Regardless of such nonsense the Arch wiki has information that suggests that VNC can work with wayland. Their documentation is usually pretty solid and sticks with matter-of-fact descriptions of what does/doesn't work. -Ben On Monday, July 29th, 2024 at 7:53 PM, Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone has a success story about deploying persistent multiuser VNC or RDP > setup on headless server running Wayland? > > I used to use classic VNC and RDP (tigerVNC and Xrdpd respectively) to run > persistent desktop multi user, multi DE sessions. I need it for both home > lab and work. > > This seems to be currently impossible to do with Wayland. When reaching out > to RH/Fedora/SuSE folks - I only hear childish, immature responses > suggesting that only newbies, windows people or idiots would need full > desktop session and even worse - persistent one. > > At work, we use it for accessing long running interactive CAD sessions and > general workspaces on headless servers located in some caraway colo - from > laptops. We are connecting and disconnecting multiple times a day as we > roam between office cubicles, conference rooms, remote work locations. My > old X based session is 226 days on a host with 43 other KDE, Gnome, Mint > and Xfce sessions. At home, it is similar, except with fewer users. > > In my previous job, we used self service, per user VMs. That is too wildly > progressive for our IT gatekeepers, so I am looking for traditional VNC or > RDP solution. And also for home use, so that I could move on from X on a > headless servers. > > Anybody there who could help with good advice about how to go about it on > recent Fedora, openSuSE, Ubuntu LTS? > > Thanks, Tomas
