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Remote desktop is not quite there yet it feels. It's the only reason to still use X imho.

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This should be the replacement for most of the legacy X-based (like for example Toger VNC) remote desktop tools:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop https://www.mankier.com/1/grdctl

This is already available in Fedora in some capacity. Main focus seems to be on RDP, with some support for VNC as well.

How well does 'X forwarding' ("Wayland forward"?) work?

A lot of time I don't want a remote "desktop", but rather just launch an app and have it sent over an SSH tunnel (-X/-Y).

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

Thanks for this, almost forgot it. Works great on Fedora Workstation 39.

Wayland forwarding over SSH: done

Awesome, this might be just what I needed! I need to run vscode and it seems to be possible if you launch it with --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland . I'll play around with it the next days, thanks!

RDP as a protocol does support remoting just apps (RAIL: Remote Application Integrated Locally, or RemoteApps).

However, for Wayland compositors, this is a distant future; right now, Mutter supports connecting to existing, already running session (desktop). Ability create a new session over RDP is in the works. Everything else is after that.

Last time I tried to use Wayland on my NVidia laptop it didn't work well, both with the proprietary driver and with Noveau. I can't remember the details and I have too many open apps to logout and try again now. I switched back to Xorg and forgot about it. It was January this year, Debian 11.

Software in Debian 11 is now 2 years old as far as features and bugfixes are concerned.

I had weird flickering and micro screen freezes with my 2070 on Arch using Wayland on my new desktop build 3 weeks ago. Switching to Xorg fixed everything.

>NVidia laptop didn't work well on linux

closing as WONTFIX, everything working as expected

I know, but it works well with X11.

Xwayland will still be there so there will be way to remote desktop to xwayland.

freerdp has some integration with Gnome and KDE, but yeah, it's work in progress still.

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