Waypipe on Windows and macOS
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I've got a Linux server running applications on Wayland. I've found Waypipe's performance to be much better X forwarding, XVNC, and GNOME Remote Desktop while keeping server load low.
Problem is, I need a Linux client to run Waypipe on.
But Waypipe is essentially X2Go for Wayland, and I found this post about Devolutions getting X2Go working for Windows and macOS clients, so I thought—hey, maybe it's possible to get Waypipe working on Windows and macOS clients too?
It would be very cool to have this feature somehow.
The way you run Waypipe generally is over an SSH tunnel like so:
waypipe ssh user@server firefox
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Hello,
From what I understand of your request, this would require us to implement Waypipe on Windows/Mac OS. This would require an entirely new feature (maybe a separate app) and a lot of work, so at the moment this is not something we will look into, but we will keep an eye out for further interest.
As a note, our X2Go integration is simply calling the command line of the x2goclient executable with a few parameters, so I don't think it's comparable as an integration. If Waypipe has something similar available for Windows then we could integrate it in a similar way, but from what you're saying, they don't currently offer a Windows version of their application.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
Hi Hubert,
Fair enough!
I didn't know what went into X2Go support. I don't think Waypipe has much interest in creating macOS/Windows clients. Though I do wonder whether WSL would be worth looking into.
Hello,
We support the Windows Terminal in RDM (there is an entry dedicated to it), perhaps this could help you achieve what you need that way through WSL. That, or the Command Line entry is versatile and could be helpful in achieving this as well.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
Hi Hubert,
I was just about to mention that I got Waypipe working in WSL!
Thanks for the pointer. I'll see if I can get this working in RDM too.
If you manage to get it working, feel free to share here so our community can benefit from your knowledge! I'm sure there's others who might like to get something similar working and this might help them out.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
Ended up not using this for Windows clients in the end as they preferred RDP.
But it would probably be as simple as installing WSL, installing waypipe, and running a command like this in RDM:wsl --exec wapipe ssh user@remote program
Thank you for sharing. If you have any other questions or requests, let us know!
Regards,
Hubert Mireault