Remote Desktop with Wayland

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:00:19 +0300 Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> said:

> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 22:36:08 +0300
> Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I want to use Linux at work on my workstation PC but currently I
> > can't. The main reason is lack of useful Remote Desktop access to
> > Linux from outside. By useful Remote Desktop access I mean how it's
> > implemented in Windows. In Windows you can connect to a locally
> > started session and continue it remotely. When you do this the local
> > computer will be locked. You can go back to the local computer, unlock
> > it and take over the local session by entering your password. Also you
> > can connect to a Windows computer without any existing session and
> > this will start a new one remotely. After that you can go to that
> > computer, unlock it and continue that session locally. I need this
> > functionality to continue my work outside the office or from other
> > location in the office (a meeting room or a workplace of a colleague).
> 
> Hi,
> 
> that is a very nice description of a useful feature. I wonder if KDE,
> GNOME or Enlightenment would have something like that in their roadmap?

we currently have some bits and pieces, but not everything. eventually we do
want to offer remote access to an existing session (more likely via vnc
protocol or something more custom), but we're not there yet. still have other
things to do until we go there.

> > Today's Remote Desktop server solutions in Linux can't provide the
> > above functionality. I've tried xrdp, several implementations of VNC
> > and X2Go. None of them function as needed. They do one of the
> > following:
> > 
> > 1. Always start a new session
> > 2. Continue a locally started session in a sharing mode when the local
> > computer is not locked and anyone near it can see what I do and even
> > intervene to that session by local mouse and keyboard.
> > 
> > X2Go has even additional problem supporting different resolutions of
> > remote and local computers.
> > 
> > As far as I know you've also added the RDP support into the Weston
> > compositor. Do you support the Windows Remote Desktop functionality as
> > described above or this functionality should be implemented by a
> > higher layer that uses Weston? Or what other project (that uses
> > Wayland) should I ask about this?
> 
> I'm not too familiar with Weston's RDP-backend, but given it's a
> separate backend, I believe it cannot switch between local and remote
> modes, it will always be remote. There is also the screen-share plugin,
> but I doubt that's a solution here either, I would guess it is missing
> the local locking while in remote use.
> 
> I believe the functionality you describe must intimately integrate with
> the compositor and cannot be achieved by applications atop alone.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> pq


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