2y ago

Waypipe Makes Me Happy

Howdy, folks! Doing X11 forwarding over ssh has been my go to way to access graphical applications on my headless server. With X11 being deprecated with its many security issues, I was slightly bummed since I thought I'd have to setup VNC or RDP.

Low and behold I stumbled across Waypipe! Made my god damn day.

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runs around in circles flailing and fancrittering about Wayland, which is (finally) (pretty) good now (for many users and usecases) :3 \ö/ 🥳
- Fancrittering is my new favorite word 🥰
  
  Yaaaay I'm glad to provide this to you . :3
So how do you do it? Like, what's the Wayland equivalent of xinit ssh -X user@remote-server startkde to forward an entire desktop session?
- From the source, mostly s/xinit/waypipe: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe#usage
  
  That looks promising. Thanks!
  
  I love that this notation is generally accepted among the linux nerds. Lemmy FTW :)
I'm also glad to see Wayland tools maturing. The hand wringing about lack of X forwarding was always FUD and a nonsense reason to cling to the fiction that X works well over a socket and justify all the shitty compromises X made to remain compatible with it.
Honestly I use moonlight for my virtual desktop. My desktop isn't Wayland yet but I will likely move it to the new COSMIC desktop when that gets released as stable
I'll have to look into it, I just enabled Wayland on my Nvidia card to see how it goes.
- It's definitely not perfect, but I've been running Gnome Wayland on my Nvidia card for close to 6 months, and haven't had too many problems.
I've just enabled Wayland on my Nvidia card to see how things go. https://lemmy.ml/post/8569836 doodle jump
waypipe - yes. But also wayvnc - I've been using wayvnc for a couple of years to export a headless wayland session from a file server. FOr my sins I use vncviewer on XWayland to consume it as it still seems to be the fastest.

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