Remote desktop on Plasma Wayland session

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:29 PM Jan Grulich <jgrulich at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've spent quite a bit time on remote desktop support for Plasma Wayland
> sessions. I have full mouse support in xdg-desktop-portal-kde and also in Krfb
> so it can be easily tested and used. Problem is that I'm currently blocked by
> my additions to the FakeInput protocol on KWayland and KWin side and I'm
> unable to get this reviewed. The addition is basically just about allowing to
> move with mouse cursor using absolute coordinates, because current API allows
> only relative coordinates. Therefore I would like to kindly ask if someone
> from Plasma/KWin maintainers can look into this so I can get this off my
> plate.
>
> The reviews are here:
> KWayland: https://phabricator.kde.org/D18114
> KWin: https://phabricator.kde.org/D18115
>
> Also, while mouse support might be enough for someone, we still need keyboard
> support, which I tried to add into the FakeInput protocol as well, but it was
> rejected by Martin as he would like to have a different and more secure way.
> I currently don't have that much time to investigate this further and
> implement myself, but it might be a good idea for a GSoC task, it would just
> need someone from KWin maintainers to help on this front, while I can help on
> the portal side of thing. Are there any volunteers for this? Any idea how all
> of this can be done?
>
> If you want to see a demo of the remote desktop, see the link below, on one
> laptop I used Krfb (server) running on Wayland session and on the other one I
> used Krdc (client).
>
> Link: https://jgrulich.fedorapeople.org/wayland_remote_desktop.mkv

Would it make sense to review keyboard now that we have the kwin
privileges and org_kde_kwin_fake_input needs to be requested?

Aleix