WayVNC 0.8 Preparing Transient Seats, Automatic Server-Side Resizing & Detached Mode

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WayVNC 0.8 Preparing Transient Seats, Automatic Server-Side Resizing & Detached Mode

WayVNC v0.8 is working its way toward release as a VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC continues to make it quite easy to have VNC support for Wayland desktops employing wlroots and this next release brings even more features...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/WayVNC-0.8-rc0-Wayland-VNC

[Kemosabe]

Why does it care about wlroots??! Is there a protocol being used that is unofficial and only implemented by wlroots or what?

[Serafean]

Why does it care about wlroots??! Is there a protocol being used that is unofficial and only implemented by wlroots or what?

Based on the readme:

This is a VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors (:no_entry: Gnome, KDE and Weston are not supported).

My understanding is "We only test against wl-roots. Other compositors: Might work, might not"

[zexelon]

Why does it care about wlroots??! Is there a protocol being used that is unofficial and only implemented by wlroots or what?

Mostly because there is actually nothing official about any wayland protocol... its a train wreck of hodgepodge of loosely baked together protocols that are only partially implemented in each client in some sort of Salvador Dali / Ven Diagram abomination.

[browseria]

Mostly because there is actually nothing official about any wayland protocol... its a train wreck of hodgepodge of loosely baked together protocols that are only partially implemented in each client in some sort of Salvador Dali / Ven Diagram abomination.

This is incorrect. The readme at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayla...ref_type=heads does a good job of explaining the lifecycle of a "non-core" wayland protocol, which when it reaches stable is just as official as anything else.

[milo_hoffman]

KDE and Gnome already have their own built in features to provide VNC remote capabilities on Wayland.

[caligula]

KDE and Gnome already have their own built in features to provide VNC remote capabilities on Wayland.

Well this was only merged one month ago https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/180

[browseria]

Well this was only merged one month ago https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/180

This is to support a feature to appear in GNOME 46/Fedora 40, where you don't have to be logged into the computer prior to trying to RDP into it. The GNOME VNC/RDP remote capabilities have been in place for quite a while, ref. https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mutter/RemoteDesktop.

See also: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/W...g#Remote_Login

[cynic]

Mostly because there is actually nothing official about any wayland protocol... its a train wreck of hodgepodge of loosely baked together protocols that are only partially implemented in each client in some sort of Salvador Dali / Ven Diagram abomination.

this is not Wayland, this is what X11 became after decades of "upgrades".

[Volta]

this is not Wayland, this is what X11 became after decades of "upgrades".

It seems you're expecting too much from amoeba.