[MIR] gnome-remote-desktop
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-remote-desktop (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Availability
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Built for all supported architectures. In sync with Debian.
Rationale
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GNOME switched to Wayland by default in the 3.22 release 2 years ago. Ubuntu followed that lead and defaulted to Wayland with 17.10 but switched back to X for 18.04 LTS. One key feature that the Ubuntu Desktop team supports with X and wants to continue supporting with Wayland is remote desktop. Therefore, I think this MIR is a blocker to enabling Wayland by default for 20.04 LTS.
This MIR depends on the pipewire MIR (LP: #1802533)
GNOME Remote Desktop
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To enable GNOME's remote desktop feature in Ubuntu, you need:
- Build mutter with --enable-
This has been done in Debian but we need pipewire in Ubuntu main to enable on Ubuntu
- Install gnome-remote-
- I suggest uninstalling vino to make sure you will be using gnome-remote-
- Restart your computer
- Log in to the Ubuntu on Wayland session.
I believe it should work on X too but there is a misconfiguration in GNOME:
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- Open the Settings app to the Sharing page. Turn on Sharing in the app's top bar.
Click Screen Sharing and turn it on.
Only VNC is supported at this time.
- Use remmina (Ubuntu's default app) or another VNC client like Remmina to connect from another computer.
Security
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No known security issues
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I expect the Security Team will want to review this MIR.
Quality assurance
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- Ubuntu Desktop bugs needs to be subscribed
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No autopkgtests. No build tests.
Dependencies
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pipewire MIR (LP: #1802533)
Standards compliance
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4.2.1, debhelper compat 11, simple dh7 style rules
Maintenance
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Co-maintained in Debian with the Debian GNOME team
upstream: https:/
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Other Info
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I think Debian Buster "10" GNOME will include GNOME Remote Desktop by default. Fedora 29 will include it by default soon (it looks like an oversight that it wasn't done before the 29 release).
vino still has additional features that we want so we don't plan to demote vino to universe any time soon.Tha
Changed in gnome-remote-desktop (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) |
Changed in gnome-remote-desktop (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Ubuntu Security Team (ubuntu-security) → nobody |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.