wayvnc VS NymphCast

Yeah. On Wlroots or Sway, we can setup virtual displays pretty easily (swaymsg create_output, done). Then both the other person and yourself connect to the wayvnc vnc server server to see what's over there.

Available May 2020, https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/7#issuecomment-6256611...

You can run remote applications with Wayland now: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

There is also a VNC server for fullscreen sessions (only supports wlroots compositors for now): https://github.com/any1/wayvnc

There's wayvnc.

It says on their GitHub page that "Gnome, KDE, and Weston are not supported". What does that mean?

I thought this existed in the form of wayvnc but from their README it seems they don't support the popular desktop environments (GNOME, KDE).

Not sure if I would call it hassle free, but wayvnc isn't that hard to set up.

And wayvnc

There is however a fresh issue on the wayvnc github with what looks like your problem. https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/206

On wayvnc git master and sway 1.8 (or git master), you can script things so that a "virtual" display gets created automatically when someone connects to VNC, and removed when they disconnect.

See https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/pull/200/files

The script in the PR does something a bit different, but it's only an example and can be modified to do what I described in the first paragraph.

No - it's not X, it's doesn't share a screen in the way X does.

That said... if this is a shoddy attempt at a "gotcha" style question - Screen sharing and remote desktop are both supported.

Ex - for Gnome:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mutter/RemoteDesktop

LibVNCServer for VNC support, FreeRDP for remote desktop protocol.

For KDE:

https://userbase.kde.org/Krfb

Which mostly just works as long as you have Pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal-kde installed (the base plasma-wayland session usually includes them)

This one is a bit less polished - some users still have problems with keyboard input, depending on the distro and other installed packages.

For Sway:

xdg-desktop-portal-wlr works just fine for screen sharing, and you can use https://github.com/any1/wayvnc for VNC access (including having a completely headless machine).

Are you looking for something like this?

A different altern@tive gor media streaming, dimilar to chromecast, is Nymphcast: https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast

Both clients and servers are available, it also works at a higher level.

I've been watching NymphCast for a while now, but I've never actually run it before.

I'm trying to cast any video from YouTube to a RP4 using the Chromecast (DIAL?) protocol. How do you do this? So far I've tried PiYouTube, RaspberryCast, PiCAST, PYCASTER, and NymphCast. All unsuccessfully.

No. You need more apps to support https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast/ you can DIY a home network with something like this. There used to be picast and some other android apps that allowed you to do it (by running android on a system that ran the videos) etc

Don't send me to pre-alpha software like Nymphcast