Remote Wayland access

David david at daku.org
Wed Feb 25 23:23:35 UTC 2026


Folks

I run some servers as a hobby, some of which are remote.  I manage 
them from my Windows 11 machine at home, using SSH sessions, and this 
has worked and continues to work.  However, occassionally, I want to 
run a GUI on a remote server.  I have been using x2go, or NoMachine, 
and sometimes RDP, all of which work just fine.  With the switch to 
Wayland in RedHat 10 and Ubuntu 25.10 (and this implies that Ubuntu 
26.04 will also), I have not found an equivalent method.

 From my reading, RDP would work provided the remote machine was 
running a GUI so I could share the desktop.  But the system run-level 
is command line, and changing that wouldn't be good for my SSH scripts.

Note that I'm trying to access a headless instance of Ubuntu 25.10 
from a Windows 11 machine, and really don't want to activate WSL on 
my home machine.

I'm assuming that the decision to switch to Wayland took remote 
access into account.  Any advice would be appreciated.

David




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