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We do support for a commercial Linux desktop program that gets primarily run on Windows clients. We use VcXsrv (a X-Server for Windows) for that. I'm wondering
by noAnswer 3y ago
We do support for a commercial Linux desktop program that gets primarily run on Windows clients. We use VcXsrv (a X-Server for Windows) for that.
I'm wondering, is it/will it be possible to forward a Wayland program like you can a X11 program? Or will we have to go back to NX/X2Go/VNC/RDP solutions and login to a whole desktop environment?
- johnny22 3y agowaypipe maybe?
- noAnswer 3y agoThanks for the tip. So maybe in combination with WSLg it is possible. Not as easy as a X-Server for Windows but still.
- zerocrates 3y agoThis is running in WSL? Microsoft has some wayland stuff already for WSL, though I think internally there's RDP involved: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
- noAnswer 3y agoIt's not running in WSL. It runs on a central server and the clients use plink(putty/ssh) X(VcXsrv) forwarding.
- zerocrates 3y agoAh. Yeah then I guess you're in the land of either waypipe or RDP/VNC/etc.
- akvadrako 3y agoParsec is way better than VNC/NX/X11/etc. You aren't going to get better than streaming compressed video with any modern toolkit, since the rendering happens in the app and it's just about moving pixels going over the network.
- erik_seaberg 3y agoNobody uses just one computer anymore, and software rendering plus a codec is a poor use of shared datacenter hardware. We’re going to end up with Javascript or Wasm as the accelerated remote rendering API unless someone delivers something more appropriate.