weston build with rdp backend

Bug #1654864 reported by John Moser
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weston (Debian)
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weston (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Submitting a patch to build Weston with weston-rdp compositor. This patch is against the Zesty source package and adds a weston-rdp-compositor package.

This plus an Xwayland install and an additional script should help close #220005

Tags: patch
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John Moser (nigelenki) wrote :

This builds. I haven't tested if it works--I don't have the environment for it--but it builds. Corrects an out-of-date data format in compositor-rdp.c to make it build correctly.

Please verify.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "[EXPERIMENTAL] A patch for weston 1.12.0-1" seems to be a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are member of the ~ubuntu-sponsors, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issue please contact him.]

tags: added: patch
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John Moser (nigelenki) wrote :

The thing said to make a debdiff, so I figured out how to do that in the last 5 hours or so.

Changed in weston (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in weston (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in weston (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) wrote :

Fixed in the latest ubuntu upload (via automatic sync from Debian).

Changed in weston (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in weston (Debian):
status: Fix Released → New
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Dave Thompson (dwt-h) wrote :

Pardon my ignorance but how does one obtain the "weston-rdp-compositor" package?

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technic (alexeytech) wrote :

This is not fixed!

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John Moser (nigelenki) wrote :

The Debian update has been reverted because freerdp2 isn't in testing and doesn't build everywhere.

Weston's RDP compositor back-end would make a number of things possible, notably exposing a LightDM or GDM greeter on RDP. This would allow HD tablets and Netbooks to log in remotely, e.g. via the Android RDP client, Windows RDP client, or FreeRDP. Weston supports switching backends without logging out, allowing attachment to the running session, which means an appropriate greeter can supply VDI by switching to a user's running session on login locally or over RDP.

One cannot overlook the advantages in cost, flexibility, and reduced environmental footprint—thin clients include small computers drawing under 1 watt average power—and an RDP compositor backend is a critical component of such a feature.

Perhaps it would be best to specify a more-complete roadmap to Ubuntu VDI with the resolution of this bug being a part of that.

Changed in weston (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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