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Supporting VNC on wayland (debian trixie)

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I'm planning to migrate to Debian 13. I currently use a touchscreen device on Gnome on Xorg (not wayland) because I rely on VNC (specifically x11vnc) to monitor remote desktop sessions. Unfortunately touchscreens seem [pretty broken](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3484) in the latest mutter (window manager) with Xorg . Since that issue affects Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and is 10 months old, I'm not expecting it to get fixed soon. Therefore, I have to migrate to wayland. However x11vnc doesn't work on wayland. I've tried a few others: tigervnc-scraping-server, wayvnc, but I can't get a connection with any of them. I think my best shot is gnome-remote-desktop which advertises VNC support, but this seems to be built with VNC disabled. I can tell because grdctl only shows options for RDP:
$ grdctl --help
Usage: grdctl [OPTIONS...] COMMAND [SUBCOMMAND]
Comamnds: 
  rdp
    set-port
    enable
    disable 
    ...

Options: 
  --headless
  ...
How can I get VNC to work with Wayland?
Asked by Stewart (15631 rep)
Mar 25, 2025, 10:34 AM
Last activity: Jun 19, 2025, 06:53 PM