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    4 years ago

    As far as I understand this works through remote desktop, FreeRDP in particular, and relies on weston rdp backend.

    This means the same server-client architecture could be used also from Linux to Linux (including the custom shell they created for this). It would be a nice thing for Wayland Linux desktop remote access… it’s done in such a way that you no longer need to open a whole remote session desktop window, but instead it’s seamlessly integrated so each window is rendered separatelly, as if it was actually running locally instead of remotelly (“VAIL optimized” as they say).

    The contributions done to FreeRDP and the plugins are all free software, so I think this is an interesting development for Wayland, even if you don’t care about WSL. This might mean finally there’s a way to set up proper seamless remote access for Wayland, something that it was lacking compared to X11.

    The changes on RDP client though, I’m not sure if those have been released… there’s the WSLDVCPlugin but it’s not clear to me if that’s enough or not.