Fedora 40 Desktop Sharing difficulties

Hello.
The first thing I would like to say is that I love your Fedora products, I enjoy using both Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server Edition.
I like your vision of Gnome, and it suits me completely)
And I want to thank you for your wonderful work on such a good product.

But I have encountered a working difficulty that I cannot resolve.
I have to connect to Fedora Workstation’s remote desktop to be able to work remotely.
There is a “Desktop Sharing” option, it does what I need.

Difficulties:

  1. “Desktop sharing” works ONLY when the user is already logged in.
  2. “Desktop sharing” works ONLY if the monitor is physically connected to the PC.

I would like to be able to connect to the lock screen so I can enter my system password and unlock the screen.

In my case, it’s a mini PC that sits on a shelf and is only connected to power and the internet.
It has Fedora 40 installed, I only use Wayland and will not use Xorg.

Can you help with these issues?
After all, these are really very useful things that allow you to comfortably work remotely, even on Windows(God forgive me) this RDP works as it should.

You probably need this:
:gear: GNOME Settings > System > Remote Desktop > Remote Login

See also:
Headless Remote Desktop setup process - #2 by vgaetera - Desktop - GNOME Discourse

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yes, it seems to work as it should.
But I noticed that when I disconnected, all the apps close.
Even when I intentionally lock the screen and disconnection, it still closes all the apps.

Is it possible to make the apps not close after disconnection ?

I expect the upcoming Fedora release will add support for persistent sessions:
Save headless desktop created by remote login for next connection (#193) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-remote-desktop · GitLab

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It’s a pity that this is so, I hope it will be solved soon.
In the meantime, I’ll have to keep the connection active all the time so as not to lose anything.
I still can’t understand why Fedora 40 falls asleep after a while, although I’ve disabled the sleep option everywhere.

It is best to open a new topic to discuss your problem with power management.

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