Remote Wayland access

[⁹Andrew C Aitchison]

> 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.

   From `man wayvnc`:

This is a VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors.
It attaches to a running Wayland session, creates virtual input
devices and exposes a single display via the RFB protocol.
The Wayland session may be a headless one, so it is also
possible to run wayvnc without a physical display attached.

I don't sit in front of a Windows desktop so am
not in a position to recommend a Windows VNC client,
but I believe there are several.

[ If you are familiar with X11 you may have noticed the
    unusual choice of terms 'client' and 'server'.
    VNC does not share this. ]

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                     andrew at aitchison.me.uk