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Please just click in the link, read the README! It offers: - remote assistance - headless multi user remote login - headless (single user)

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I don't want to argue on semantics. Currently you can't start a graphical session completely remotely using any protocol (RDP, VNC, no machine, whatever).

I don't use GNOME, or GDM, or RDP, but isn't https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop#headless... describing that?

> GNOME Remote Desktop supports integrating with the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) to achieve remote login functionality. This feature is only available via the RDP protocol. It works by the remote user first authenticating via a system wide password, which gives access to the graphical login screen, where they can login using their user specific credentials.

And then it seems to describe a pure-cli config process that you could set up once over SSH and then be able to RDP to the box thereafter.

Actually for that matter, the next section - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop#headless... - appears to describe doing a single-user version of the same, explicitly running headless.

Have you actually tried setting it up on Wayland yourself?

Please do.

I've seen too many threads like this based on a hunch and docs, while it just doesn't work.

I'll be more than happy to be proven wrong.

I've used it. It works fine. You connect with RDP, get a gdm login screen, and can log in.

Thank you, I will definitely test it soon.

> Have you actually tried setting it up on Wayland yourself?

I use it very regularly. Particularly the headless part (where nobody is logged in physically, just a remote session).

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