Wayvnc Alternatives

wayvnc reviews and mentions

• DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2024

  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...

• Dropping GNOME's X11 session approved for Fedora 41
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2024

  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

• Is my use case with X.org possible with Wayland?
  2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 17 May 2023

  There's wayvnc.

• Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org
  16 projects | /r/linux | 13 May 2023

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

• What kind of applications are missing from the Linux ecosystem?
  41 projects | /r/linux | 2 May 2023

  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).

• What are my options for remote desktop software on wayland?
  1 project | /r/linux | 13 Apr 2023

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

• When do you think you will switch to Wayland?
  5 projects | /r/archlinux | 24 Mar 2023

  And wayvnc

• Can I run Sway via remote desktop on a Linode server running arch?
  1 project | /r/swaywm | 31 Dec 2022

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

• Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2022

  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.

• Intel is using DXVK for their Windows Arc GPU DX9 drivers
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2022

  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).

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