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Is there any possibility to have something similar to X11 forwarding using Wayland?

I have to edit some big config file and would be great to have that functionality back.

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[–] TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I've used waypipe and it worked in my testing.

[–] blackbeard@europe.pub 1 points 9 hours ago

I will have a look, thanks!

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 6 points 9 hours ago

Try wprs or waypipe?

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Does RustDesk run on Wayland? I've had a good experience with it.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 points 4 hours ago

I have tried, but need a working display and user interaction (that i didn't have at the time - thus needing a way to log into plasma remotely)

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

are you using a graphical editor to edit the file?

will nano or vim work?

[–] blackbeard@europe.pub 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

It's probably me, but I find yaml file very difficult to edit in nano. I used to use stuff like kate or gedit and it was way easier for me.

PS. besides yaml I use nano or vi for everything else and I love them.

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.org 5 points 9 hours ago

You could also try micro, which is a terminal text editor with mouse support, syntax highlighting and many more features that you know from GUI text editors.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

vim should make yaml editing easier and you're familiarity with vi should help a lot.

[–] progandy@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

Alternatively you could consider sshfs and open the file in a local editor.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 8 hours ago

I think that'd be VNC or Remote Desktop these days. Wayland deliberately did away with the networking stuff.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

This is the big issue. It breaks a lot of X11 features. Remote desktop via VNC or RDP should still be possible. Another is ssh and sftp. Edit the file on the client. Another go all in with command line. Nano is easy. Emacs or VIM more powerful but harder. Screen is a useful command line tool too.

Interested in what others suggest.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

I agree. It sucks that Waypipe does not work on Xorg. Bad enough that it cannot do HDR or VRR. X11 breaks everything.

Ok, not everything. VNC and RDP work over X11 (not just Wayland).

https://www.mankier.com/1/waypipe