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The good news is: We know and we're taking your needs seriously.

Much improved RDP support is coming with Plasma 6 in early 2024: https://planet.kde.org/arjen-hiemstra-2023-08-08-remote-desk...

It's integrated into the Plasma display server, so no more fiddling with xrdp.

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That's great news. At the beginning of the year, I had to decide between Windows and Kubuntu for our company's remote desktop developers. Windows RDP outperformed every Kubuntu option I tested by far. 2023 hasn't been the year of the Linux desktop (remote edition) for us. With these news, it seems 2024 might just be the year!

> exposing a KDE Plasma Wayland session

Does that mean I'll need to start a session locally before I can connect via RDP or will it be like Windows RDP where it starts a session on-demand?

To me the more important point would be if it can connect to an existing session (like Windows can). AFAIK XRDP on all current major linux distros only work with X11 (not Wayland) and if you try to log in using an account that is already logged in locally, you get a black screen.

IIRC Gnome recently launched something the opposite, where you can only share the screen of an already logged-in session (but it does work with Wayland, but only on Gnome).

A built-in KDE Plasma RDP implementation would be a game-changer, especially if it worked with Wayland (I assume it will) and even more so if it could connect to both existing logged-in sessions and start a new session on demand, like Windows does out of the box.

Currently it seems to be intended for sharing a physical screen only

Been using KDE Neon on a NUC as a second desktop for years and been loving it, but the complete lack of a usable remote desktop solution for it (I've tried them all, they all suck) has meant my main desktop stays on Windows.

With how Windows 11 is shaping up the future was looking rather depressing.

So this news sounds great, crossing my fingers!

Love KDE! Thank you for the excellent work! The release of the abomination known as Windows 11 has really given a lot of people the opportunity to evaluate new, and better, things!

Wow, I didn't know about this. I often need remote desktop and its been a real pain in the past to get it running and to get it running well.

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