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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Waypipe Makes Me Happy (lemmy.today)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Howdy, folks! Doing X11 forwarding over ssh has been my go to way to access graphical applications on my headless server. With X11 being deprecated with its many security issues, I was slightly bummed since I thought I'd have to setup VNC or RDP.

Low and behold I stumbled across Waypipe! Made my god damn day.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So how do you do it? Like, what's the Wayland equivalent of xinit ssh -X user@remote-server startkde to forward an entire desktop session?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

From the source, mostly s/xinit/waypipe: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe#usage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That looks promising. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love that this notation is generally accepted among the linux nerds. Lemmy FTW :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

To be fair, if you're deep enough into Linux to use xinit, it's extremely unlikely you've never used sed before.