Remote Desktop using the RDP protocol for Plasma Wayland

Will a head-less non-shadowed session use case be supported?

By default on XRDP and on Windows, a remote session does not have to be locally authenticated. When a remote user connects, they are presented with a login screen and afterwards any other sessions by that user are disconnected including the local session. RDP of course also supports shadowed sessions where both the remote and local screens are synchronized.

With both KDE and Gnome deciding to use RDP instead of RFB (VNC) for remote desktop connectivity on Wayland, I see however that both are implementing it in a shadowed approach. This mirrored approach is more typical of VNC solutions.

Will behavior similar to XRDP and Windows be supported in the future?

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