Got Remote Desktop working via KMS capture

[thepragmaticmero]

Well, there's no way to capture via VNC, RDP, RustDesk, etc, at the moment. Until daddy YaLTeR or some brave rust wayland dev implements it. So for now the only way I managed to do remote desktop is by bypassing wayland completely :D

Ingredients:

Server (with niri wayland archbtw)

• Sunshine

Client (with whatever)

• Moonlight

This is a guide for Arch BTW cus ArchBTW.

• Follow this guide to add the sunshine repo. Or install using a AUR helper paru -Syu sunshine-bin
• Install sunshine sudo pacman -Syu sunshine
• Enable avahi-daemon first, otherwise you'll get an error systemctl enable --now avahi-daemon
• Give sunshine root permission to KMS capture (bypassing wayland) sudo setcap cap_sys_admin+p $(readlink -f $(which sunshine))
• Enable the sunshine service as user systemctl --user enable --now sunshine
• Go to https://localhost:[port] and setup username and password for sunshine.
• Go to your client and put your server's ip on moonlight, install with this guide, check the ip on the server with ip a, moonlight might detect it automatically.
• Pair the pin on the server.
• That's it I guess... I'm too lazy to finish writing this correctly. I'm going to sleep. zzzzzzz.

Lesson of the day: Writing documentation sucks, but its so important tho. So do it.

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