Subj : Remmina RDP
To   : BARRY MARTIN
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun May 05 2024 08:59:00

> It seems Remmina and Wayland don't get along all that well.  Remmina
> plays nice with X11, but Bookworm uses Wayland.  There is a way to
> switch to Wayland back to X11 -- should be easy enough to find else with
> a bit of digging I could find it in my notes.  I elected not to switch
> back as thinking if I revert back then ll run into problems because
> eventually X11 will be depreciated and I'm back to the current problem.

That was sort of my thinking when I upgraded to Bookworm... that I was
better off going ahead with Wayland because X11 is closer to "going
away."  ;)

> IceWM seems to use (or plays nice with) Wayland.  LXQT seems to be based
> on X11: I was looking around for hints and one of the hits was "LXQt
> Desktop Now '100%' Ready For Wayland", which to me implies it currently
> uses X11, which might be why Remmina uses it.

That could very well be it.  I assumed it was something happening on the
host system (i.e. the RDP daemon was choosing LXQt) but maybe it is
directly related to Remmina as the client.

> You might want to try an alternative remote desktop utility; here I've
> been using TigerVNC.  ...Using Remmina because of its nice chart/listing
> feature: I can scan the chart for "Pi Clock" instead of 192.168.4.64).
> For the Wayland-running systems I use TigerVNC and right now just type
> in the IP.

It is not a super big problem as the system I am remoting into has plenty
of horsepower.  A couple of other machines I have are not really capable of
running something as lean as even LXQt so I only ever use IceWM on them
when logged on locally.  I don't currently remote into them too often.

That said, this is a suggestion I need to keep in mind.  I may give Tiger a
try if I have some spare time.  Is it a client, or do you need to install
something special on the host end also?

Mike

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