Do kde developers expect everyone to just use waypipe and forget about using vnc/rdp if kwin is running in headless mode?

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On both OpenSuse Tumbleweed and FreeBSD, krfb-virtualmonitor will crash if I do this:

kwin_wayland --virtual &
export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0
krfb-virtualmonitor --resolution 1920x1080 --port 5900 --name some_name --password some_password

It won’t immediately crash, but if I try to access kwin by using the bVNC client on my android smartphone, krfb-virtualmonitor will crash. There is no such thing as krdp-virtualmonitor, so I can’t use an rdp server when kwin is running in headless mode. Of course, waypipe is a great tool, but I can only use it as a client on machines running a wayland compositor. My smartphone, however, can’t run a wayland compositor… I showed you the commands that I used to start headless kwin/vnc. Maybe I made a mistake in them? If I didn’t, then I can only conclude that kde developers want everyone to use waypipe (on client devices capable of running wayland compositors, and android smartphones/tablets are not such devices) and forget about the headless kwin/vnc (or rdp) combination.

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Hi - I updated your post for the “backticks” to get terminal commands/preformatted text to show up more legibly.

Have these crashes been reported via Bugzilla?

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My understanding is that work on RDP support has started over year ago.

See the initial announcement and a follow up earlier this year.

There even seems to be a thread here on Discuss.

Don’t know if SDDM can accept/authenticate RDP connections yet or if this is actively being worked on.

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It’s been years since gnome made accomplishing the same thing easy: you just have to type “gnome-shell --no-x11 --headless --virtual-monitor 1920x1080”, configure either the rdp or vnc access with the grdctl utility, and start gnome-remote-desktop.service. (Though it can only be done on Linux, not on FreeBSD). So, it’s kinda odd that kde only has real support for non-headless vnc (or rdp?) mode on wayland. As I said in my first post, waypipe is a great tool, and it allows you to forget about vnc/rdp annoyances, but… I can’t run it on android clients.