Remote assistance, NOT remote logins. It can be used as support when someone is already went to that computer, authenticated and has a full gnome session opened.

So you literally CANNOT log in remotely :) If you are lucky, you can assist remotely to a session someone opened locally on that machine.

And it's like that on any other WM. KDE also has a deceiving option in settings that suggests full remote desktop, while it doesn't allow that.

Please just click in the link, read the README! It offers: - remote assistance - headless multi user remote login - headless (single user)

I don't want to argue on semantics. Currently you can't start a graphical session completely remotely using any protocol (RDP, VNC, no machine, whatever).

I don't use GNOME, or GDM, or RDP, but isn't https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop#headless... describing that?

> GNOME Remote Desktop supports integrating with the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) to achieve remote login functionality. This feature is only available via the RDP protocol. It works by the remote user first authenticating via a system wide password, which gives access to the graphical login screen, where they can login using their user specific credentials.

And then it seems to describe a pure-cli config process that you could set up once over SSH and then be able to RDP to the box thereafter.

Actually for that matter, the next section - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop#headless... - appears to describe doing a single-user version of the same, explicitly running headless.

Have you actually tried setting it up on Wayland yourself?

Please do.

I've seen too many threads like this based on a hunch and docs, while it just doesn't work.

I'll be more than happy to be proven wrong.

I've used it. It works fine. You connect with RDP, get a gdm login screen, and can log in.

Thank you, I will definitely test it soon.

> Have you actually tried setting it up on Wayland yourself?

I use it very regularly. Particularly the headless part (where nobody is logged in physically, just a remote session).

It's not explicit from the link, but does it allow the headless login to be resumed from console and vice versa?

I tried some solutions in the past but they did not support that, which is a deal breaker.

There are no headless sessions on Wayland. At all.

You want proper headless session, set up X11 distro and use xrdp - it's really easy. But on wayland "remote support" to something that is already displayed on screen is all you can get now.

What I want is to be able to start a session remotely after a reboot, and continue that same session when I get back home. And conversely start a session while at my desk at home and resume that same session remotely. Without any weird limitations.

In other words, how RDP works on Windows.

So you're saying that is still not possible I take it.