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By: Joan Torres Lopez

March 10, 2025 12:00 am

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Headless remote sessions in GNOME, Part 3

From login session to user session It’s been explained how an RDP client connects the system-daemon handles creating a headless login session with a handover-daemon, and then hands over the RDP client from the system-daemon to the handover-daemon using the ServerRedirection method and the Handover dbus interface (see Part 2). Then the user authenticates […]

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By: Joan Torres Lopez

March 3, 2025 12:00 am

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Headless remote sessions in GNOME, Part 2

With that basic proof of concept established, see Part 1, the focus shifted to developing a more robust and user-friendly solution, leading to architectural changes and two new daemons.   Two new gnome-remote-desktop daemons The overview idea of the approach would be: an RDP client connects to the remote system and gets a GDM […]

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By: Joan Torres Lopez

February 24, 2025 12:00 am

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Headless remote sessions in GNOME, Part 1

If you need to access a remote system, the usual way is using ssh.  There are some cases where you need to access a remote system to provide remote assistance to a user in a graphical environment, the user located at the remote system should set up and start a VNC server attached to […]

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