Package request: Waypipe for wayland display forwarding

[hunger]

Describe the package

I'd like to request the package waypipe. With Gnome moving towards wayland, it would be really handy to have waypipe available: Waypipe adds display forwarding for wayland applications over the network and supposdly is the way to go about this.

Waypipe is in Fedora, so it should be possible to add it.

[bigpod98]

As someone who basically runs everything remote i have to ask is this needed in bluefin, cause wast majority of people will never use something like this. And on top of that those who do do remote desktops, probably use something else to begin with.

[hanthor]

@bigpod98 is there a reason not to add it other than you personally won't use it?

[bigpod98]

Just sharing my opinion based on my experiance as lets bo honest using remote desktop is a very nieche thing and i dont see waypipebeing of use for probably 95+% users of bluefin and those who would use it are likely skilled enough to make their image based on bluefin that adds waypipe
Also due to much better availability of remote software i doubt many actually use waypipe or would want to use it even in those few %s who do use remote desktop stuff as one of biggest categories is gaming for which sunshine/moonloght stack is better so is steam remote play

[hunger]

My use case is taking my laptop and sitting in the garden to work. I still am running everything on my big machine via SSH. That works wonderfully, till I need to run a graphical application (like test a GUI program I just built). That is when I need to go to the big machine and sit down there. That feels like something I could avoid with waypipe.

Gnome comes with remote desktop capabilities, but that exports a full desktop in resolution of the monitor connected to the big machine -- which is much bigger then my small laptop screen. That makes it pretty impossible to use the remote desktop at all.

I am not able to build a custom image for bluefin:-) And waypipe is not in homebrew either AFAICT. So I am kind of stuck right now.

[hunger]

Wow, Cool! It works for me.