Remote access to graphical interface, Wayland/RDP?
asked 2014-03-26 18:46:20 +0200
I am new to this Wayland stuff, but I have at least figured out that ssh -X does not do the expected thing any longer. I did some listless searching and found some mention of merged RDP over Wayland (I think that's the way it should be, or is it the other way around?). Anyway, in a happily naive way, I tried firing up a Windows XP RDP client and targeted it at the Jolla's IP. No dice - well, for that to work would have just been to good to be true!
So, has anyone figured out how this newfangled jalopy works?
Edit: What I really would hope for, even cooler than RDP-support, would be direct rendering on the remote device by the toolkit (i.e. Qt5 in this case). I saw that mentioned on some forum, though only as a "this is how Wayland is meant to work"-comment. Does any Wayland proficient person know if anyone actually implemented anything like that? Can it be ported/used on Sailfish/Qt5?
Update: I think this will help users to promote Jolla in various forums such as LUG, Hackathons, Semianrs, etc. Added tablet tag as this will help as promotion material for anyone who availed the perk to buy it in lots.
I second this. Aside from all proposed solutions below, would it be possible to code some service that hooks into the Wayland framebuffer and then make it possible to forward that over network to some very specially adapted desktop application (only for the purpose to connect to the jolla)? What I mean is, some solution that is especially dedicated to the Jolla, at least as some sort of temporary solution before RDP can be integrated into the Lipstick compositor.
Larswad ( 2014-05-22 10:57:01 +0200 )edit