{"id":12922,"date":"2025-03-07T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=12922"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:54:32","slug":"network-transparency-with-wayland-bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/03\/07\/network-transparency-with-wayland-bis\/","title":{"rendered":"Network transparency with Wayland (bis)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oh, I forgot I already wrote about waypipe, regarding 3d games<\/a>. Almost 5 years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the boring part. If you log into a machine where a Wayland session is already active – I often log into my home machines remotely – any Gtk program will show on the Wayland desktop. So you use “waypipe ssh $HOST<\/code>” which is cool and works like a breeze but adding those lines to your .bashrc helps when you are not using a wayland session (i.e. Windows):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if [ -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ]; then\n  if [ -n "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" ]; then\n    echo "Remote session with waypipe, everything will be OK" \n  else \n    echo "Remote session, forcing GTK to X11"\n    export GDK_BACKEND=x11\n  fi\nfi\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Oh, I forgot I already wrote about waypipe, regarding 3d games. Almost 5 years ago! Now the boring part. If you log into a machine where a Wayland session is already active – I often log into my home machines remotely – any Gtk program will show on the Wayland desktop. So you use “waypipe…<\/p>\n
Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-3mq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12923,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2025\/03\/07\/applicazioni-da-remoto\/","url_meta":{"origin":12922,"position":0},"title":"Applicazioni da remoto","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2025-03-07","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, dimenticavo di aver gi\u00e0 scritto di waypipe, a proposito dei giochi 3d. 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