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
Last activity: Jun 19, 2025, 06:53 PM