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Going further are there any web Linux desktops? Like whole UI, text rendering and input is on a client's side browser. So also graphics with caching and video p

by hawski 7y ago

Going further are there any web Linux desktops? Like whole UI, text rendering and input is on a client's side browser. So also graphics with caching and video playback is just sending already encoded data through the wire. Video may need reencoding in case of non-web codecs though. It does not need to do any HTTPS, there is SSH, VPN, WireGuard and Zerotier. WIP projects are also interesting for me. Also I was thinking - would it be possible to at least have a virtual VAAPI driver that would send the encoded video straight over the connection and integrate it with something like Xpra? Because I had done some VPN/RDP like sessions via Xpra and videos are the biggest pain really.

PhilippGille 7y ago
Like Apache Guacamole? It sits between your client and server and turns the RDP/VNC connection to the server into a webapp for the client: https://guacamole.apache.org/ https://guacamole.apache.org/ I tried it a few years ago and found it cumbersome to set up though.
- hawski 7y ago
  No. Not desktop streaming in web browser. Btw Xpra also has an HTML5 backend. More like gtk's broadway backend, but for the whole desktop with fully browser side rendering.