Author: Joan Torres Lopez
March 10, 2025 12:00 am
270 viewsHeadless 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 […]
Categories: Desktop, SUSE Blog, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
March 3, 2025 12:00 am
378 viewsHeadless 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 […]
Categories: Desktop, SUSE Blog, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
February 24, 2025 12:00 am
452 viewsHeadless 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 […]
Categories: Desktop, SUSE Blog, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop