Howdy, folks! Doing X11 forwarding over ssh has been my go to way to access graphical applications on my headless server. With X11 being deprecated with its many security issues, I was slightly bummed since I thought I’d have to setup VNC or RDP.
Low and behold I stumbled across Waypipe! Made my god damn day.
runs around in circles flailing and fancrittering about Wayland, which is (finally) (pretty) good now (for many users and usecases) :3 \ö/ 🥳
Fancrittering is my new favorite word 🥰
Yaaaay I’m glad to provide this to you ^.^ :3
So how do you do it? Like, what’s the Wayland equivalent of
xinit ssh -X user@remote-server startkdeto forward an entire desktop session?From the source, mostly
s/xinit/waypipe: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe#usageThat looks promising. Thanks!
I love that this notation is generally accepted among the linux nerds. Lemmy FTW :)
To be fair, if you’re deep enough into Linux to use xinit, it’s extremely unlikely you’ve never used sed before.
I’m also glad to see Wayland tools maturing. The hand wringing about lack of X forwarding was always FUD and a nonsense reason to cling to the fiction that X works well over a socket and justify all the shitty compromises X made to remain compatible with it.
Whoot! Perhaps wayland can be a thing after all ;)
It already has been 🔫
Honestly I use moonlight for my virtual desktop. My desktop isn’t Wayland yet but I will likely move it to the new COSMIC desktop when that gets released as stable
waypipe - yes. But also wayvnc - I’ve been using wayvnc for a couple of years to export a headless wayland session from a file server. FOr my sins I use vncviewer on XWayland to consume it as it still seems to be the fastest.
I’ve just enabled Wayland on my Nvidia card to see how things go. https://lemmy.ml/post/8569836 doodle jump
