Gnome Screen Sharing - Post 3.38 Stack Upgrade (T9407)

[celticmagic]

Saijin_Naib (#Saijin_Naib), 2020-11-28 02:12:42 UTC

If I read/understood the announcement properly, vino (which used to handle the functionality) has been removed and replaced with gnome-remote-desktop to handle this sharing through Mutter.

To that end, I compiled and installed gnome-remote-desktop from source and the Sharing toggle still can't be toggled properly, and the functionality still isn't present.

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Is this something that is planned to be fixed, or is it out of scope? I know that others have had issues in the past when it was vino-based, but it seemed that the issue at the time was upstream.

Thanks.

[celticmagic]

Joshua Strobl (#JoshStrobl), 2021-05-15 17:57:03 UTC

I have added gnome-remote-desktop into the repository. However please note that while I am able to establish a VNC connection after turning it on in GNOME Control Center, it just shows a blank screen for me when I connect to it using any VNC client (whether that's remmina, tigervnc, etc.). As such, I won't be adding it to gnome-control-center until I can determine what that specific issue is. I welcome anyone else to poke around with it. Won't be closing this issue until the blank screen issue is sorted.

Worth noting that you will need to enable the gnome-remote-desktop service and pipewire socket as your own user, I do not believe it will just automagically work otherwise.

systemctl enable --now --user gnome-remote-desktop
systemctl enable --now --user pipewire.socket

[celticmagic]

Saijin_Naib (#Saijin_Naib), 2021-05-16 02:28:26 UTC

Thank you so much for looking into this. This to me is a "killer app" for Budgie, and something I think that would really add value to Budgie as a DE on my Linux machines.

Unfortunately, you're far beyond me at this point. I will keep up with news here and will continue to test, if that is helpful.

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@joebonrichie Does this feature work now?

[davidjharder]

This bug is ancient