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RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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Re: RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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pizza234 wrote: post #74
diego_moita wrote: post #60

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I just have one word for you: TightVNC. That's what made me uninstall RustDesk.

I have three words for you: read the docs. If you're experiencing a bug that pegs you're CPU, fair enough. But RustDesk is video-stream based (in many formats), while TightVNC is image(-region) based. This is actually similar to why you watch movies in, say, H.264 rather than Motion JPEG¹. ¹=similar, not same.

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Re: RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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Post by superkuh »

This depends on libdrmtap "A (LLM AI coded) zero-dependency C library for DRM/KMS framebuffer capture on Linux" https://github.com/fxd0h/libdrmtap which doesn't actually seem to give remote access so much as remote access to the screen visuals. The other hard parts of remote access on the various waylands are still left up to more proprietary, per wayland compositor, custom extensions not in wayland core or exposed by the kernel. That is, not universal.

Re: RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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Post by guiambros »

innocent_name wrote: post #63
inktype wrote: post #18

RustDesk still does not support encrypted connections when self hosting: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/3714

>does not support encrypted connections when self hosting Factually incorrect. If you self host a relay/coordination server - encryption works as documented.

Only if you use a relay server. Direct connections in a local network are not encrypted, and RuskDesk doesn't plan on implementing it [1].

[1] https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/3714#issuecommen...

Re: RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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Post by Fnoord »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #91
zuzululu wrote: post #46

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so whats the edge that rustdesk that offers ? gaming ?

Performance, at any rate. VNC is fine but can be laggy.

I ran Wayland over Waypipe over WireGuard (Tailscale, in my example), and it worked very well. That over a 1 gbit fiber... shared with whole building/office. In fact, I ran remote AOSP this way.

Now, VNC might actually also work very well over WireGuard or SDN based on WireGuard. Since VNC was designed for LAN, in a time where LAN was the common use case.

For me, low latency is from the past. I always got either wired, Wi-Fi, LTE, or Starlink.

Re: RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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Post by d3Xt3r »

9cb14c1ec0 wrote: post #92
pyramidless_cle wrote: post #88

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That's not really true for quite some time now. Both client and the free server depend on a separate submodule that has no LICENSE file whatsoever. Because of that RustDesk is stuck in a limbo somewhere between open source, source-available and closed source. Also, the whole management of the project seems questionable. Also for some features a dll blob which is not open source is required with no source disclosed at…

That's what BetterDesk is for: https://github.com/UNITRONIX/BetterDesk

I like that their server is just a single Go binary, but then they go and ruin that with a Node.js web UI and.. PostgreSQL?! Seems like complete overkill. I wonder what gripping limitations they faced with SQLite that they decided it needed PostgreSQL.

Re: RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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Post by SubiculumCode »

aborsy wrote: post #83
fsh wrote: post #72

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It's not VNC-based, so the performance is much better. It also supports multiple monitors.

Thanks! GNOME Remote Login runs an RDP server, and RDP indeed isn’t fast enough, although is TLS-encrypted.

Isnt the issue with the latter is tha tyou need a local session first before you can connect?

Re: RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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Post by haswell »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #107
9cb14c1ec0 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what BetterDesk is for: https://github.com/UNITRONIX/BetterDesk

I like that their server is just a single Go binary, but then they go and ruin that with a Node.js web UI and.. PostgreSQL?! Seems like complete overkill. I wonder what gripping limitations they faced with SQLite that they decided it needed PostgreSQL.

SQLite is still the default backend. Postgres is optional.

Re: RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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Post by opello »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #107
9cb14c1ec0 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what BetterDesk is for: https://github.com/UNITRONIX/BetterDesk

I like that their server is just a single Go binary, but then they go and ruin that with a Node.js web UI and.. PostgreSQL?! Seems like complete overkill. I wonder what gripping limitations they faced with SQLite that they decided it needed PostgreSQL.

It looks like PostgreSQL is optional and SQLite is the default.

https://github.com/UNITRONIX/BetterDesk#prerequisites

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