Anybody on KDE Plasma 6.1 got the new Remote Desktop feature working?

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Tried to set up the new built-in Remote Desktop feature of KDE Plasma 6.1, but, after realizing that krdp needed to be manually installed (and then doing so), I’m stuck where I can’t connect with either KRDC or Remmina - KRDC gives an “Unknown error” message, and Remmina loops between “Reconnection attempt 0” and “1”.

I’ve tried adding the rdp service to the FedoraWorkstation zone of the firewall, but no luck so far - just curious if anyone else has it up and running?

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Added krfb, rdp, remote-desktop

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After installing krdp package, I also attempted to use Fedora package build of remmina but it would error out. I switched to the flatpak version of remmina and was able to get it working (the flatpak has ffmpeg-full i believe). It appears to be related to h264 support of the client you use to some degree. There are a number of users in the fedora-kde matrix room also reporting issues depending on the client used.

You’re not the only one – it looks like there are a few bug reports being opened on kde’s bugzilla

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Used the Windows 10 Laptop of my SO. works so far. Observations:

  • had to insert my username with a “local” domain prefix, like: .\marc
  • had to use the password given in plasma for the user, not the linux account password
  • had to switch to a single screen on the remote machine (I have a 4k screen next to the laptops 2.8k screen)
  • video playback was actually really smooth, some compression artifacts then and now
  • there is no sound playback from the remote machine on the client
  • it is mirroring the actual desktop, not like in windows a pure virtual logon session
    • So there is no “fit virtual desktop to window” feature, you would rather have to adjust the resolution on the physical screen that gets mirrored
    • also the remote machine and the client do see exactly the same screen. It’s more like a shared screen in teams/zoom/slack/whatever you are used to