The alpha version of the GNOME 46 desktop environment should be out for public testing any day now for early adopters and enthusiasts who want to get an early taste of the newly implemented features, one of them begin support for headless remote logins via GDM (GNOME Display Manager).
This is one of the highly requested features for GNOME and it is achieved through the
↫ Marius Nestorgnome-remote-desktopcomponent, which provides a remote desktop server for the GNOME desktop to allow you to connect to your machine remotely using PipeWire.
The final release is planned for late March.
Awesome! Now does it allow sessions to be detached and reattached? Local to remote, remote to local, remote to remote?
When you say detached, do you mean similar to how you can kill an ssh session running tmux, start a new ssh session, and reattach to tmux and pick up where you left off? That feels like it would be a crucial feature for sure.
Hooray! The lack of this (along with a weird bug affecting multi-monitor setups) is really my only complaint about Wayland — everything else is lovely. Or at least, it feels no worse than xorg days.
skeezix
Indeed. Wayland could be ready for me too if I were a gnome user and didn’t care about other desktops. It’s a shame the same work needs to be repeated for every desktop compositor. Hopefully other desktops get more attention in 2024 so that they can reach feature parity. Until then, we can’t say it’s ready for everyone.