Post #3163881
2026-06-04 05:36 UTC
I really need to hold myself back from implementing a Wayland VNC server. I know there's wayvnc, but it's been crashing lately on my remaining Hyprland PC, and it doesn't support KDE (yes I regularly use Sway, Hyprland, and KDE)
The RFB (VNC) protocol is ridiculously simple compared to something like HTTP. The hard part would really be interfacing with the various desktop environments. XDG portals makes that a little easier but I'm not sure how much.
I really don't have time for this right now but it's soooo tempting
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@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt 2026-06-04 06:53
@tarix29@tech.lgbt ideally this would have to be implemented as an output backend on your particular compositor, but to reduce effort you could launch it with its 'wayland surface' output backend (where it would connect to a second compositor, which would be yours, and open a surface there). a bit hacky but i guess you would just need to implement the core Wayland protocol