Hi,
I'm not clear on if you want to do desktop sharing or a
remote X
> connection. For an application like evolution, I would suggest
desktop
> sharing. If you want to run evolution and have it display on your
> screen using X forwarding, then you just need the "-X" option to ssh.
> No port forwarding required (other than ssh to get in). Then you
have
> to run the application and it only displays on your screen (slowly).
>
>
> I forgot that the command-line I was using was from a long time ago when
> I actually had tigervnc working properly over port 5901. When I connect
> using just -X then try to run evolution, it fails:
>
> $ ssh -X -i ~/.ssh/mykey-key.rsa -l gary remotehost -p 1024
> [gary@fedora ~]$ evolution
> (evolution:3644): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 09:41:05.182: Your application
> did not unregister from D-Bus before destruction. Consider using
> g_application_run().
That's not failing unless it comes back to the prompt. How long did you
wait? Is it already running for that user?
He's bringing the PC to me so I can experiment now, but I think it went
back to the prompt and evolution simply never appeared. My DISPLAY was set
to localhost:10.0 but it's somehow possible it was being displayed on his
computer.
> If you want to do desktop sharing, then your friend needs to enable
> that
> in the sharing section of the Gnome settings.
>
>
> Do you have more specifics on that? I've tried search for "sharing"
and
> "remote" in my GNOME settings in Cinnamon and nothing is found.
I don't know about Cinnamon. Maybe it doesn't have it. In Gnome,
there's a section called "Sharing" which has ssh, desktop sharing, and
file sharing.
I believe Cinnamon is just a window manager on top of GNOME?
I'm an old-school admin who used to build his own X configs - haven't kept
up with the desktop stuff, despite having fedora as my daily driver for
decades :-)
My current preferred method is to use rustdesk. There's an
rpm
> available from the website. I run my own server and relay for it, so
> it's completely private. I've only used it for supporting windows
> users
> so far, so I'm not sure how well it works for Wayland on the remote
> system. It works fine with Wayland on the viewing side.
>
>
> It appears rustdesk is only the client, correct? The server is built-in
> to Wayland as an RDP server, correct?
It's both and Wayland doesn't have an RDP server. Both sides run
rustdesk and one side does the connection using the connection info
provided from the other side.
All the googling I've done hasn't resulted in any docs on how to
download/setup/configure rustdesk on the server side. Do you have a pointer
on how to do this?
I'm also assuming his desktop is wayland, given it's the fedora default, so
should I convert to Xorg? It's a basic 10yo PC with a built-in video card
and 64GB RAM.