The X11/wayland thing is going to be an issue going forward over all distros. I use my PC mouse/keyboard across two monitors: one for the PC, the other attached to an rpi4. For this I use an app called "barrier" whereby I move the mouse off one edge of my PC screen and it appears on the rpi screen (along with keyboard). It took me a couple of days to hack the barrier sources to make that work. Nasty hacks, unworthy of posting upstream.Now, the thing is. Nomachine doesn't currently work under wayland. The obvious thing is to use raspi-config to switch to X11 (works fine). However, even if wayland is running, nomachine will offer a virtual desktop. This is probably a bug/feature but nevertheless is useful. Port 4000 open is all you need.
I really support that you typed this message, beer and all - I really do appreciate it - I've tried nomachine or nxmachine before and had some good results, but from what you have said it's no better than vnc, so if I'm stuck with X11 and have a choice of nomachine or vnc I'm probably as well staying with what I'm used to.
I kid you not, I had x11, xfce and everything all running perfectly fine until a 'sudo apt get update/upgrade' I did completely totaled it - I was even on VNC trying 5900. 5901 - ANYTHING to try and get it back.
I finally have my docker data back by being able to convert my BTRFS from 1.x to 2.x changing the block size allowing me to finally mount my backup and get things moving again - but it's not good enough. I've HEARD things like once you turn off wayland, you need to restart and do raspi-config again and then retoggle vnc - it's not good enough unless you can actually show what things were originally set to.
For all I know the update I installed restored a switch that turned Wayland back on and for some reason whatever I was doing was not fixing it - but without the button feedback, who can know.
I figured nomachine was worth a mention on account of it being cross-platform. That company are going to be very invested in making the X11/Wayland thing work.
Sure it takes a reboot in 'raspi-config' to toggle from Wayland to X11 (or vice-versa) like any distro. The current nomachine works regardless. You'll get at least a virtual desktop.
Statistics: Posted by swampdog — Mon Jan 01, 2024 2:11 am