XFCE 4.20, Wayland (labwc), GDM, Linux Lite 7.x
Test Continuation
Not unexpectedly it’s probably going to prove a bit more difficult to connect in the other direction. Running Remmina on my spare Linux Lite 6.6 box I had no trouble connecting to an SSH terminal.
SFTP worked fine as well.
At first I attempted to set up wayvnc and wayvncctl but without success on labwc. For some reason systemd did not set up the service correctly and the virtual port for screen copy was not ported at all. Afterwards I attempted to install Wayfire and got the correct entry in GDM for it but it stubbornly would not boot. Below you can see the entry for Xfce Session (Wayland Wayfire) which is correct. It may be that I have the .ini file misplaced but I doubt that is the case since the entry in GDM indicates that Wayfire is installed in the XFCE session manger.
After flailing around for a while I decided to go ugly and setup gnome’s settings manager and gnome’s remote desktop to get some kind of remote desktop connection. In my Remmina RDP setup I had to pick all the auto options as you can see in the 2 images below.
Eventually I ended up with a decent working and fast remote display with some interesting desktop configuration anomalies. With gnome RDP for Wayland you must connect from the GDM screen. Essentially gnome Wayland limits you to one user session at a time. You cannot be logged in to your host Wayland desktop when you attempt to connect remotely over RDP with a client machine. I have read that multi-user is configurable but I had no reason to bother with it. Anyway your first connection brings up GDM in the Remmina window and you can login remotely from there. The drawback is that gnome uses a different Wayland compositor than labwc coupled with waypipe and you are stuck with an Ubuntu desktop when you login even though the terminal reports otherwise.
I got basically the same results connecting from Windows RDP connection with virtually no configuration quirks other than the Ubuntu desktop.
I’m going to continue to work on wayvnc and wayvncctl. I think it could be the best way for Linux to Linux connections on a LAN with XFCE 4.20 Wayland. It’s probably a matter of a port to the compositor or maybe a socket setting. I would like to see it have the same level of control as x11vnc i/e: be able to stop and start the service from a secure shell. I’m also going to continue to look into gnome waypipe settings for RDP to get my Linux Lite desktop over RDP from Windows.
Test Continuation Part 7: Connect To Wayvnc From Remmina