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A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 0 stories, 16 comments · first 2020-03-03 · latest 2025-07-28

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  1. …wayvnc is quite good. Their first FAQ question is about running over ssh, on a headless backend. https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/blob/master/FAQ.md#faq Personally I think sunshine & moonlight is 100% the way to go. There is one way…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-28 · in Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress
  2. …the other person and yourself connect over vnc or rdp to see what's over there. Available May 2020, https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/7#issuecomment-6256611...
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-10-10 · in DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
  3. …There is also a VNC server for fullscreen sessions (only supports wlroots compositors for now): https://github.com/any1/wayvnc
    comment by NoGravitas · 2024-03-07 · in Dropping GNOME's X11 session approved for Fedora 41
  4. …gets created automatically when someone connects to VNC, and removed when they disconnect. See https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/pull/200/files The script in the PR does something a bit different, but it's only an example and can be modified…
    comment by any1 · 2022-12-16 · in Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
  5. …packages. For Sway: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr works just fine for screen sharing, and you can use https://github.com/any1/wayvnc for VNC access (including having a completely headless machine).
    comment by horsawlarway · 2022-12-10 · in Intel is using DXVK for their Windows Arc GPU DX9 drivers
  6. you actually can, with vnc and sway https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/7#issuecomment-6570922 ...
    comment by askz · 2022-05-17 · in Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
  7. I actually achieved the same, with benefits. The hack is here: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/7#issuecomment-6570922... Benefits are: two way interaction :)
    comment by askz · 2022-05-17 · in Using a Linux phone as a secondary monitor
  8. …software to create dummy displays on Linux? Xvfb ( https://linux.die.net/man/1/xvfb ) wayvnc: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc Weston has a headless backend also.
    comment by tyingq · 2021-11-01 · in Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions
  9. …to put together. But I enjoy how very simple & unadorned Sway + Wayvnc make it all. [1] https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/issues/7
    comment by rektide · 2021-06-19 · in How to Use a Tablet or Phone as a Second Monitor in Linux
  10. …it's "remote access" to a whole desktop. And that's easily available for the wlroots ecosystem https://github.com/any1/wayvnc But actually "remote windowing/apps" is even better supported, it's a universal proxy:…
    comment by floatboth · 2021-02-02 · in I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
  11. "Wayland forwarding": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe VNC: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc
    comment by tbr1 · 2021-02-02 · in I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
  12. I haven't tried it, but there's also this one for wlroots-based compositors (eg. sway): https://github.com/any1/wayvnc
    comment by spear · 2020-09-10 · in Emacs is special regarding UIs
  13. …Here is an example for Sway that you could use for Cage as well: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc/blob/master/FAQ.md
    comment by techntoke · 2020-07-26 · in Show HN: Open-source isolated browser, free for journalists etc.
  14. …Wayland compositor, then wayvnc becomes an option for RDP. (Note: haven’t personally used this.) https://github.com/any1/wayvnc Waypipe offers network transparency to Wayland, where by you can run applications across the network. I believe…
    comment by jchw · 2020-04-10 · in FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementation
  15. …https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mutter/RemoteDesktop KDE: https://userbase.kde.org/Krfb Sway/wlroots: https://github.com/any1/wayvnc Generic: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/ Web-Based: https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield…
    comment by cycloptic · 2020-03-05 · in The X-Windows Disaster (1994)
  16. Yes, both Gnome and Sway have VNC: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mutter/RemoteDesktop , https://github.com/any1/wayvnc . Weston has RDP, and there are efforts being made to also add VNC.
    comment by any1 · 2020-03-03 · in Firefox 75 on Wayland now to have full WebGL, working VA-API acceleration