Remote Desktop [SOLVED]

madderhatter · 2023-05-10 14:44:58

So as a long time Windows user TeamViewer solved this problem. I run linux full time now but TeamViewer doesn’t cut it specifically because of Wayland. I’ve been looking at a lot of options but the easier solutions like RustDesk also don’t seem to have support for Wayland. That’s led me to looking at options like Gnome Remote Desktop.

Here’s the thing concepts like setting up a server or SSH are completely foreign to me. I’ve just never had to do anything like that. My use case is simple enough (right?). My friend and I connect to each other from across the country to share notes and files from time to time and share tutorials about our desktop to learn from each other.

All that said I’m requesting good documentation on how I can go about doing that now on Wayland. I’ve watched a lot of tutorials and read a lot of documentation already but generally these address local networks. A major question I have is how to see or find the ip address each of us has to connect to each other.

The second hurdle is understanding whether or not one or both of us has to set up a server on our machine for such a connection.

I’d really appreciate being pointed to thorough documentation on the issue as what I’ve come across so far seems to assume a certain level of competency which I do not have. Thank you in advance.

Last edited by madderhatter (2023-05-17 21:34:48)

progandy · 2023-05-10 15:27:33

The development version of rustdesk has wayland support, i am not sure how good it is for now.

To simply share a screen without remote input, mabe try video conferencing, e.g jitsi meet in a browser.

For documents/notes, you could use a shared online editor like etherpad

madderhatter wrote:

. A major question I have is how to see or find the ip address each of us has to connect to each other.
The second hurdle is understanding whether or not one or both of us has to set up a server on our machine for such a connection.

A rough overwiew: With Gnome remote desktop, The one sharing their screen has to set up the server end of the connection. That also includes configuring the router to forward/allow connections to the server. Then you have to find out the ip of your router and let your friend connect to that.

Last edited by progandy (2023-05-10 15:40:31)

madderhatter · 2023-05-11 03:53:16

Thank you for the response. I suffer from trying to find out how to do things the easiest way. Sometimes that isn't practical lol. Anyways. Based on your response I opted for the development version of RustDesk. paru -S rustdesk-git failed due to:

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/archive/2.1.4.tar.gz
    Aborting...

Upon further inspection /archive/2.1.4.tar.gz does not exist at this time at the github repository.

Moving forward I installed:

paru -S rustdesk-nightly 1.2.0-0

This is to gain access to the development version.

From here I tried running it:

bash: rustdesk: command not found

It's a symlink which I don't really understand and may have spelled incorrectly.

Moving on

It's symlinked here ---->>> /usr/lib/rustdesk

So:

cd /usr/lib/rustdesk

that puts you in the right directory

follow that up with

./rustdesk

launches the program warning that wayland support is experimental and unattended access needs X11 at this time.

That's how far I have gotten so far. Will test tomorrow and update accordingly. Thank you.

Last edited by madderhatter (2023-05-11 03:54:07)

madderhatter · 2023-05-17 21:34:27

UPDATE:

I went for a complete workaround. So I installed KDE on X and I just keep 2 desktop environments. It's easy enough to switch to Hyprland or KDE depending on needs. So that is the solution I opted for and it's quite nice actually. I did try the developer version of rustdesk with a little success but it wasn't picking up keyboard inputs. That's why I gave it up and opted for having both desktop environments and vanilla KDE is actually really good. Thank you for the information. I'm marking this is solved at least for me.

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#1 2023-05-10 14:44:58

Remote Desktop [SOLVED]

#2 2023-05-10 15:27:33

Re: Remote Desktop [SOLVED]

#3 2023-05-11 03:53:16

Re: Remote Desktop [SOLVED]

#4 2023-05-17 21:34:27

Re: Remote Desktop [SOLVED]

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