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RustDesk (FOSS easy to use TeamViewer alternative) has experimental Wayland support that needs testing! (github.com)

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Current prerelease is 1.2.5

1.2.4 is the first to introduce experimental Wayland support. Especially on KDE Plasma there are supposed to be some issues.

Lets test!

Why?

Regular RDP/VNC programs are hard to use in real scenarios, as they rely on IP addresses. RustDesk is easier as it uses a Rendezvouz server that can also be selfhostet or reimplemented.

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[–] TCB13 -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The point is that under Windows you can change the App name to set credentials and other settings like this:

rustdesk-host=mydomain.tld,key=eiu5pzFYlr5nY9i9yJp9smzzLnvx4XNX7O3SaNhkWS8=.exe

But under macOS you can't do it... just because they don't want to.

[–] aksdb 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The apps are bundled completely differently on OSX and Linux. It's technically not possible to do the same thing there. Also this is not a free/paid limitation at all.

They could maybe build a packaging tool that can customize the binaries (adding data to the PE executable in Windows and maybe a property file in OSX and Linux); but that's quite some effort for not much gain.

[–] TCB13 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Under macOS it’s trivial to change the name of the application package without messing with other aspects of the packaging.

[–] aksdb 1 points 5 months ago

If it's so easy to implement, go ahead and open a PR. The community will be thankful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Qt actually ships platform tools that modify binaries to change the library search paths.

[–] aksdb 1 points 5 months ago

I said it's possible, just much more effort than the current solution which only requires reading and and parsing the process name on startup.