Vnc for remote display?

stdcerr mail.stdcerr at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 13:31:04 UTC 2019


Hi Pekka,

Yes, I'll be able to find more with the information you gave me, this looks
like a good start:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=screencast+wayland+vnc+pipewire&t=canonical&atb=v185-6&ia=web

Thanks!
stdcerr

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 12:43 AM Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 08:27:06 -0700
> stdcerr <mail.stdcerr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Pekka,
> >
> > Thank you for that explanation. I found this post:
> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=191555 which uses XRandR and
> i
> > found this quite interesting and was wondering if there's something
> similar
> > in wayland too that would be independent of the Window manager I choose
> to
> > use. I'll dig a bit deeper and see what I can find out.
>
> Hi,
>
> there is no equivalent of xrandr on Wayland. Each display server might
> have something similar of their own or not. Regardless, each display
> server would need to specifically implement an output capturing feature,
> e.g. via Pipewire.
>
> Sorry, you cannot hack this feature up with third party tools under the
> Wayland architecture, because there is no such thing as "the Wayland
> display server" common to all.
>
> In Wayland architecture, the display server, the compositor, and the
> window manager are all one in the same process, but the pieces could
> come from various libraries.
>
>
> Thanks,
> pq
>
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