Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
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#3Can anyone compare this to waypipe, which I've heard of more often for remote wayland execution.
Re: Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
#4Can anyone compare this to waypipe, which I've heard of more often for remote wayland execution.
> Can anyone compare this to waypipe, which I've heard of more often for remote wayland execution.
https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs#comparison-to-w...
Re: Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
#5Can this be used to switch back and forth between different computers? If I remember correct Xpra supports this.
E.g. (1) open a session on desktop with firefox, thunderbird, vscode. (2) Then grab laptop and go to a coffee shop, connect with wayland-tranpositor to the desktop to resume the session with those programs where you left off with them. (3) Then go home and resume from the desktop.
I guess for (1) and (3) you are just running both the server and client on the desktop, and then for (2) you close the client on the desktop and run it on the laptop?
It would be cool if it could do shadowing, or have multiple clients running at the same time.
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#6Is it better than xrdp though? I found xrdp last week and it's stellar, basically a microsoft-compatible RDP server for Linux. It's a complete solution, no drama and simply amazing.
Every other Linux remote desktop solution I tried was a mess, including Xpra (which was quite involved to even get installed and Debian, and then a letdown, yikes).
I wonder what happens with Wprs when you try to launch virt-manager, which requires root.
Re: Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
#7Is it better than xrdp though? I found xrdp last week and it's stellar, basically a microsoft-compatible RDP server for Linux. It's a complete solution, no drama and simply amazing. Every other Linux remote desktop solution I tried was a mess, including Xpra (which was quite involved to even get installed and Debian, and then a letdown, yikes). I wonder what happens with Wprs when you try to launch virt-manager, whic…
I think freerdp is a better option since it has integration with Wayland and even some Wayland DEs are adopting it as remote access feature.
Re: Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
#8Can this be used to switch back and forth between different computers? If I remember correct Xpra supports this. E.g. (1) open a session on desktop with firefox, thunderbird, vscode. (2) Then grab laptop and go to a coffee shop, connect with wayland-tranpositor to the desktop to resume the session with those programs where you left off with them. (3) Then go home and resume from the desktop. I guess for (1) and (3) y…
There's a second crucial element to this: can it lock the local screen while you do this?
I did this a whole lot in the lab with Windows - walk away, and log in remotely and monitor my session, then head back in and log back on locally.
I never found a way to do this with Linux that just restores the session the way Windows seems able to. Instead all I ever found was "the remote screen is unlocked and the cursor is moving" or whatever.
Re: Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
#9Can this be used to switch back and forth between different computers? If I remember correct Xpra supports this. E.g. (1) open a session on desktop with firefox, thunderbird, vscode. (2) Then grab laptop and go to a coffee shop, connect with wayland-tranpositor to the desktop to resume the session with those programs where you left off with them. (3) Then go home and resume from the desktop. I guess for (1) and (3) y…
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Re: Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
#10Can this be used to switch back and forth between different computers? If I remember correct Xpra supports this. E.g. (1) open a session on desktop with firefox, thunderbird, vscode. (2) Then grab laptop and go to a coffee shop, connect with wayland-tranpositor to the desktop to resume the session with those programs where you left off with them. (3) Then go home and resume from the desktop. I guess for (1) and (3) y…
There's a second crucial element to this: can it lock the local screen while you do this? I did this a whole lot in the lab with Windows - walk away, and log in remotely and monitor my session, then head back in and log back on locally. I never found a way to do this with Linux that just restores the session the way Windows seems able to. Instead all I ever found was "the remote screen is unlocked and the cursor is m…
AFAIK the only way is to always run a remote X server (i.e. Xvnc) and always connect to it, even when sitting at the local computer.
Maybe you could do something with dpms but that leaves the keyboard active still.