AnyDesk fails to start with Wayland. Xfce Wayland plans? (was: Wayland)

[Paul Menzel]

Dear ToddAndMargo,


Am 23.10.24 um 15:30 schrieb ToddAndMargo:
> On 10/23/24 05:17, Paul Menzel wrote:

>> Am 23.10.24 um 13:24 schrieb ToddAndMargo:
>>
>>> Fedora 40
>>> xfce 4.18
>>>
>>> I use AnyDesk to provide remote support
>>> to my customer.  It is similar to Go To Assist.
>>>
>>> Problem: AnyDesk will not run or even install if
>>> it finds Wayland installed on your machine.
>>> And the AnyDesk folks do not seems to be in any mood
>>> to fix the issue.
>>
>> Xfce 4.18 should not depend on Wayland at all. You could check with 
>> strace or similar tools, what the program checks, and create a special 
>> environment (for example namespaces) with that removed.
>>
>>> What are Xfce's plans for Wayland?  Not any time soon I hope.
>>
>> Please take a look at the Wiki page *Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap* 
>> [1], the first hit in my search engine search for *xfce wayland*.

>> [1]: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> AnyDesk will not work if it find ANY piece of Wayland.
> 
> Maybe by 4.20, AnyDesk will start supporting Wayland,
> but they do not seem to really care.
Then I recommend to not use them, and switch to RustDesk. They used 
sciter in the past, but moved to Flutter in the meantime [1], and should 
be fully FLOSS.


Kind regards,

Paul


[1]: https://rustdesk.com/
[2]: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/900